Antonyms for dearth
dɜrθdearth

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.3 / 4 votes

1. dearthnoun

   Scarcity; a lack or short supply.

   Synonyms:
   paucity, scarcity

2. dearthnoun

   Synonyms:
   famine, shortage

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. dearth

   Antonyms:
   dissipation, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, intemperance, lavishness, overplus, prodigality, profusion, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, waste, wastefulness

   Synonyms:
   defect, deficiency, destitution, economy, failure, frugality, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, scantiness, shortcoming, want

Matched Categories

1. • Lack
   • Scarcity

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dearth, famine, shortagenoun

   an acute insufficiency

   Synonyms:
   shortfall, shortage, deficit, paucity, famine

2. dearth, paucitynoun

   an insufficient quantity or number

   Synonyms:
   shortage, paucity, famine

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1. dearthnoun

   Antonyms:
   plenty

   Synonyms:
   scarcity, lack, deficiency, paucity, want

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. plethora

   a large or excessive amount of something.

   there is a plethora of acting talent in the uk.

   Submitted by JP03 on January 26, 2015  

How to use dearth in a sentence?

1. Donald Trump:

   A lot of people want that job. It's a great job, if you're into the world, we have a lot of good people... we have no dearth of talent, I can tell you that.

2. Sarang Gadkari:

   From a supply standpoint, there has also been a relative dearth of new institutional loan issuance, which, when combined with the CLO demand, has led to less volatility.

3. Roger Robinson:

   There has been a dearth of adequate due diligence performed on these companies from both a national security and a human rights perspective.

4. Lawrence Newman:

   All the drugs that we currently use for migraine were found just by chance. Someone had another condition and then the drug was found to reduce their migraine, there’s a dearth of funding and studies for this. I wouldn’t turn down anything as potentially promising; it just needs to be validated.

5. Sergio Mattarella:

   Five Star leader Luigi Di Maio and League leader Matteo Salvini agreed that neither would be prime minister, and announced this week that they would present law professor Giuseppe Conte for approval by President Sergio Mattarella. Conte’s appointment looked in doubt, not only because of Giuseppe Conte dearth of political experience( Giuseppe Conte has never held political office), but also after The New York Times reported that Giuseppe Conte may have exaggerated Giuseppe Conte credentials, particularly Giuseppe Conte studies at New York University -- which said The New York Times had no record of Giuseppe Conte having studied there. But after a meeting with Mattarella on Wednesday, Giuseppe Conte got the nod to attempt to form a government, and promised one of change as President Sergio Mattarella emerged from the meeting at the Quirinal Palace in Rome and struck a populist tone. What is about to be born... will be the government of change, on behalf of citizens, that protects their interests, i propose to be the defense lawyer of the Italian people.

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