dearthnoun [ S ]
uk/dɜːθ/us/dɝːθ/formalan amount or supply that is not large enough:
a dearth of new homes in the region
Synonym
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- be at a premium idiom
- be thin on the ground idiom
- deficiency
- deficient
- devoid
- gold dust
- late
- long on sth and short on sth idiom
- lousy
- meagre
- measly
- mingy
- nearly
- rare
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortfall
- sparse
- supply
- thin
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