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faminenoun a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or numberthere's a famine of good general practitioners in many rural areas crunch, dearth, deficiency, deficit, drought(also drouth), failure, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want absence, omissionmeagerness, poorness, skimpinessnecessity, need, privation abundance, adequacy, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenty, sufficiency, wealth bountifulness, copiousnessexcess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus in the 14th century |