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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficit; imperfection |
| Synonyms: | arrears, default, defectiveness, deficiency, flaw, in the hole, in the red, inadequacy, incompleteness, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, loss, red ink, shortage, shortcoming, underage |
| Main Entry: | lack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency, need |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, exiguity, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficience, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss, necessity, paucity, poverty, privation, reduction, retrenchment, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness, shrinkage, shrinking, slightness, stint, want |
| Antonyms: | abundance, enough, excess, extra, lot, plenty, plethora, profusion, surplus |
| Main Entry: | shortage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency |
| Synonyms: | curtailment, dearth, defalcation, deficit, failure, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, leanness, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarcity, shortfall, tightness, underage, want, weakness |
| Antonyms: | abundance, ample, enough, sufficiency |
| Main Entry: | scantiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortage |
| Synonyms: | curtailment, dearth, defalcation, defect, deficiency, deficit, failure, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, leanness, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortcoming, shortfall, tightness, underage, want, weakness* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scantness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortage |
| Synonyms: | curtailment, dearth, defalcation, defect, deficiency, deficit, failure, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, leanness, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortcoming, shortfall, tightness, underage, want, weakness* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scarceness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortage |
| Synonyms: | curtailment, dearth, defalcation, defect, deficiency, deficit, failure, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, leanness, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scantness, scarcity, shortcoming, shortfall, tightness, underage, want, weakness* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | underage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortage |
| Synonyms: | curtailment, dearth, defalcation, defect, deficiency, deficit, failure, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, leanness, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortcoming, shortfall, tightness, want, weakness* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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