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. John Sifton:

   The Taliban represent an abusive authority, a brutal regime that has killed people and repressed and plans to subjugate the human rights of millions of people in coming years, but none of that will matter to those people if they're dead because of 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. Andrea Taylor:

   It's feast or famine at the moment --( countries) get nothing for three months, and all of a sudden they get millions of doses, supply has to come in a predictable, reliable manner.

4. Adrienne Rich:

   They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

5. Joe Jones:

   Witch bottles are the type of things people would use more generally in famine, political strife or feeling under threat, the Union troops were definitely under all those kinds of existential threats or fears.