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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 12 votes

  1. drought

    Synonyms:
    dryness, aridity, parching, thirst

    Antonyms:
    moisture, refreshment, dew, deluge, slaking, quenching, watering, irrigation

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 2 votes

  1. drought, drouthnoun

    a shortage of rainfall

    "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season"

    Synonyms:
    drouth

  2. drought, drouthnoun

    a prolonged shortage

    "when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought"

    Synonyms:
    drouth

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Dictionary of English Synonymes3.5 / 2 votes

  1. droughtnoun

    Synonyms:
    dryness (of weather), aridity, drouth, want of rain

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.0 / 1 vote

  1. droughtnoun

    Synonyms:
    aridity, dryness, scarcity, dearth

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#37351dryness
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#142001sucha
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How to use drought in a sentence?

  1. Kathryn Masterson:

    The persistence of this drought has begun to outstrip the tools utilities typically use to manage the state's hydrological cycles.

  2. Scott Morrison:

    This will be heartbreaking to these communities that have been experiencing years of drought only to see that turn into a torrential inundation.

  3. President Imomali Rakhmon:

    Snowless winter and early spring this year are harbingers of a potential drought.

  4. Ghulam Isaczai:

    We're extremely concerned with the impact of drought which will affect the crop this year severely. And we might be faced with another major incident of food availability or even hunger, it is going to create a huge deficit between the needs and what is available.

  5. Joe George:

    Worst drought I've ever seen, we had a bad one in the early 80s but even that was nothing like this.


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