dearth
11dearth — ► NOUN ▪ a scarcity or lack. ORIGIN originally in the sense «dearness and shortage of food»: from DEAR(Cf. ↑dearness) + TH(Cf. ↑ th) …
12dearth — [dʉrth] n. [ME derth < dere: see DEAR & TH1] 1. Obs. costliness; dearness 2. scarcity of food 3. any scarcity or lack …
13dearth — [[t]dɜ͟ː(r)θ[/t]] N SING: usu N of n If there is a dearth of something, there is not enough of it. ...the dearth of good fiction by English authors. Syn: lack …
14dearth — noun Etymology: Middle English derthe, from Old English *dierth, from dēore dear Date: 13th century 1. scarcity that makes dear; specifically famine 2. an inadequate supply ; lack < a …
15dearth — /derrth/, n. 1. an inadequate supply; scarcity; lack: There is a dearth of good engineers. 2. scarcity and dearness of food; famine. [1200 50; ME derthe. See DEAR1, TH1] Syn. 1. shortage, want, paucity, insufficiency. Ant. 1. abundance, plenty,… …
16dearth — noun /dɜːθ,dɝːθ/ a) A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine. I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient… …
17Dearth — Recorded as Dart, Darte, Darthe, Death, Dearth and possibly others, this is an English surname of two possible origins. The most likely is French as shown below, but recent research has also strongly indicated an English source which may have… …
18dearth — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. scarcity, lack, shortage. See insufficiency.Ant., abundance, sufficiency II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. scarcity, deficiency, scantiness, shortage; see lack 1 , poverty 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus)… …
19dearth — noun (singular) formal a lack of something (+ of): problems owing to the dearth of experienced personnel …
20dearth — noun a dearth of trained specialists Syn: lack, scarcity, shortage, shortfall, want, deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, paucity, sparseness, scantiness, rareness; absence See note at lack Ant …
