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famine
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hunger |
| Synonyms: | dearth, destitution, drought, misery, paucity, poverty, scarcity, starvation, want |
| Antonyms: | feast, plenty, stores, supply |
| Main Entry: | hunger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite for food, other desire |
| Synonyms: | a stomach for, ache, appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, bottomless pit, craving, desire, emptiness, esurience, eyes for, famine, famishment, gluttony, greed, greediness, hungriness, longing, lust, mania, munchies, ravenousness, starvation, sweet tooth, vacancy, void, voracity, want, yearning, yen |
| Antonyms: | satiation, satisfaction |
| Main Entry: | paucity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack, scarcity |
| Synonyms: | absence, dearth, deficiency, famine, fewness, insufficience, insufficiency, meagerness, paltriness, poverty, rarity, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, slenderness, slightness, smallness, sparseness, sparsity |
| Antonyms: | abundance, affluence, plenty |
| Main Entry: | poverty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want; extreme need, often financial |
| Synonyms: | abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy |
| Antonyms: | abundance, affluence, luxury, richness, wealth |
| Main Entry: | want |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack, need |
| Synonyms: | absence, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, destitution, exigency, exiguousness, famine, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insufficiency, meagerness, neediness, paucity, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, skimpiness |
| Notes: | wont is a custom, especially habitual; want is a desire or need |
| Antonyms: | abundance, plenty |
| 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: | starvation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hunger |
| Synonyms: | deprivation, famine, inanition, malnutrition, need, want |
| Main Entry: | impecuniosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy, want |
| Main Entry: | impecuniousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | abjection, aridity, bankruptcy, barrenness, beggary, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, exiguity, famine, hardship, impecuniosity, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insolvency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pass, paucity, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, straits, underdevelopment, vacancy, want |
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