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dearth - Dictionary definition and meaning for dearth

DEARTH

  • (noun) an insufficient quantity or number

    synonyms : paucity

    The paucity of her savings prevented her from visiting her homeland. -added by naila_inlas

    The inane chat room had a pitiful paucity of brain cells in it. -added by BagomboSnuffbox

  • (noun) an acute insufficiency

    synonyms : famine , shortage

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

Mnemonics for dearth

  • (Tag: ) earth is big. de-earth.....(read as dearth) means small...small in quantity..or scarcity

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  • (Tag: English) dearth sounds like death. high death rate can result in scarcity of man-power

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  • (Tag: Global) Dearth - deers + earth. Deers in earth are getting insufficient in number

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  • (Tag: ) earth is full of things, dearth means lacking of things

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  • (Tag: english) dearth = death + r (reason) reason for death is scarcity(of food, shelter,health) thus dearth is scarcity

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  • (Tag: ) For want of food, they were starving and tried eating DIRT.

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  • (Tag: ) De-Earth means to dig...because of scarcity of water we started digging.....

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  • (Tag: ) DEARTH = dead + earth; dead earth is always insufficient in quantity.

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  • (Tag: ) due to shortage of resources man started de-earthing(digging and looking under earth) for them...

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  • (Tag: ) earth is full of things, dearth means lacking of things

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  • (Tag: English) dearth leads to death!

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