Synonyms and Antonyms of dearth
1
a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number
- there was a dearth of usable firewood at the campsite
crunch, deficiency, deficit, drought (also drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want
2
the fact or state of being absent
- the dearth of salesclerks at the shoe store annoyed us
deficiency, deficit, failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, meagerness, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, skimpiness, undersupply
deprivation, loss, necessity, need, needfulness, omission
privation
blankness, emptiness, vacuity, vacuum, void
abundance, amplitude, bounty, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plentitude, plenty, wealth
adequacy, sufficiency
excess, overabundance, oversupply, superabundance, surfeit, surplus
deluge, flood
bushel, deal, gobs, heap, loads, lot, mass, mountain, much, oodles, peck, pile, pot, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, volume, wad
fund, pool, stock, supply
cache, hoard, stash, stockpile
