Dearth

Noun

 * 1)  A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
 * 2)  Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
 * 3) * 1608, William Shakespeare, King Lear:
 * I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.
 * 1)  Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
 * 1)  Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.

Synonyms

 * famine, shortage
 * paucity, scarcity

Adjectives
barren;  deplorable;  notable;  absolute; sickening; hapless; agreeable

Thesaurus
absence, aridity, barrenness, birth control, contraception, default, defect, deficiency, dry womb, dryness, exiguity, exiguousness, family planning, famine, impotence, inadequacy, ineffectualness, infecundity, infertility, infrequency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, miss, need, paucity, planned parenthood, poverty, privation, rareness, rarity, scant sufficiency, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, sparseness, sparsity, sterileness, sterility, uncommonness, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, unproductiveness, want, withered loins

Etymology
First attested in 1596. From derþe:, probably from  *dierþu; corresponding to dear: + -th:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: оскъдица,
 * Dutch: (expensive),  (famine)
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian: carestia
 * Macedonian:, ,
 * Polish: niedostatek, głód
 * Portuguese: escassez
 * Spanish: hambruna


 * Bulgarian: недоимък
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Italian: scarsità
 * Macedonian: немаштија
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * dareth
 * hatred
 * thread