drought

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Main Entry:	drought [drout] Show IPA/draʊt/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	dryness; shortage of supply
Synonyms:	aridity, dearth, deficiency, dehydration, desiccation, dry spell, insufficiency, lack, need, parchedness, rainlessness, scarcity, want
Antonyms:	monsoon, wetness

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Main Entry:	famine
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	hunger
Synonyms:	dearth, destitution, drought, misery, paucity, poverty, scarcity, starvation, want
Antonyms:	feast, plenty, stores, supply

Main Entry:	thirst
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	craving (especially for liquid)
Synonyms:	appetite, aridity, desire, drought, dryness, eagerness, hankering, hunger, keenness, longing, lust, passion, thirstiness, yearning, yen

Main Entry:	scarcity
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	deficiency
Synonyms:	dearth, drought, exiguity, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, insufficiency, lack, paucity, rareness, rarity, scantiness, shortage, sparsity, stringency, uncommonness, want
Antonyms:	abundance, commonness, excess, surplus

Main Entry:	dryness
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	aridity
Synonyms:	dehydration, desiccation, drought, exsiccation, lack of moisture, parchedness
Antonyms:	wetness

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Main Entry:	absence
Part of Speech:	noun
Related Adjectives:	absent, away, desert, deserted, devoid, empty, exempt from, gone from home, inexistent, lost, missing, non, not present, nowhere to be found, omitted, tenantless, unhabitable, uninhabitable, uninhabited, unoccupied, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, void, wanting

Main Entry:	dryness
Part of Speech:	noun
Related Adjectives:	aneroid, anhydrous, arid, dried, dry, dry as a biscuit, dry as a bone, dry as a mummy, dry as a stick, dry as dust, exsuccous, fine, gizzen, husky, juiceless, rainless, sapless, sear, sere, siccaneous, siccative, undamped, waterproof, watertight, without rain, xeric, xerophobous, xerotic

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Concept:	[more]. Absence or want of intellect.
Synonyms:	-nouns absence of intellect, want of intellect [more]; imbecility., brutality, brute force., instinct, brute instinct. -adjectives unendowed with reason, void of reason.
Antonyms:	intellect
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Concept:	Dryness.
Category:	2. Fluid matter; specific fluids
Synonyms:	-nouns dryness; siccity, aridity, drought, ebb tide, low water., exsiccation, desiccation; arefaction, dephlegmation, drainage; drier, desiccative, desiccator. -verbs be dry; render dry; dry; dry up, soak up; sponge, swab, wipe; exsiccate, desiccate; drain, parch., be fine, hold up. -adjectives dry, anhydrous, arid; adust, arescent; dried; undamped; juiceless, sapless; sear; husky; rainless, without rain, fine; dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit., waterproof, watertight.
Antonyms:	moisture
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