Synonyms for famine
ˈfæm ɪnfamine

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. dearth, famine, shortagenoun

   an acute insufficiency

   Synonyms:
   shortfall, shortage, deficit, dearth, paucity

2. faminenoun

   a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

   Synonyms:
   shortage, dearth

Matched Categories

1. • Calamity
   • Lack

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.4 / 5 votes

1. faminenoun

   Synonyms:
   dearth, scarcity of food

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "famine":

   starvation, hunger

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1. Patricia Arquette:

   I can't tell you what this means to me, i'm a fourth-generation actor. My family has been committed to acting for over a century, through feast or famine.

2. Brendan Zietsch:

   We can't rule out the possibility that extreme environmental events, like famine, could affect offspring sex ratios. But we can say for sure that the variability of environments that Swedes born after 1932 experienced did not affect their having boys or girls.

3. United States:

   The threat of famine is a very real threat and risks doubling the numbers of people in Yemen who are at risk of dying of hunger or famine. That's the urgent factor here.

4. Woody Allen, "Without Feathers":

   Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?

5. The United:

   The recent admission by the Department of Defense that The United States companies are still authorized to maintain Saudi warplanes, means that our government is still enabling offensive Saudi operations in Yemen, including bombings and enforcing an inhumane blockade on Yemen's ports, the administration must use its existing authority to block The United States civilian contractors from aiding the Saudi war effort, before more Yemenis are plunged into famine.