‘Project Smart English’
Shaping Young Minds
20 Synonyms
for the word SHORTAGE
There’s no
shortage of synonyms for shortage, and though many of the terms are close in meaning, the variety of
connotations is sufficient to merit this list.
1. Crunch: sudden shortage (informal)
2. Dearth: a shortage, especially one with dire and severe effects, such as
one of food
3. Deficiency:
a shortage, including one of
nutritional substances such as vitamins
4-5. Drought (or drouth): a shortage of
precipitation, especially one that damages or stunts crops, or a shortage of
something customarily available
6. Failure: a lack of success, as in business or a competition, or an instance
of coming up short
7. Famine: a significant shortage, especially of food
8-9. Inadequacy (or inadequateness): a
case or quality of not having enough
10. Insufficiency: the quality of not having enough capacity or supply, or of being
incompetent
11. Lack: a shortage or an instance of something missing or not available in
the necessary amount
12. Lacuna: a shortage or gap
13. Paucity: a shortage of number or quantity
14. Pinch: a sudden shortage (informal); also, an emergency, or an instance
of pressure or privation
15. Poverty: a shortage, especially of money or material goods, or such a state
deliberately entered into (as by a monk who renounces worldly goods)
16. Scantiness: a shortage of what is expected or needed
17-18. Scarceness (or scarcity): a supply
that amounts to less than the demand
19. Undersupply: a quantity that is less than required
20. Want: a shortage or a fault, or of being extreme poor; also, something
wanted
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