'Dearth' definitions:
Definition of 'dearth'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Dearth'
From: GCIDE
- Dearth \Dearth\, n. [OE. derthe, fr. dere. See Dear.] Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine. [1913 Webster]
- There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt. --Acts vii. 11. [1913 Webster]
- He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'dearth'
From: Easton
- Dearth a scarcity of provisions (1 Kings 17). There were frequent dearths in Palestine. In the days of Abram there was a "famine in the land" (Gen. 12:10), so also in the days of Jacob (47:4, 13). We read also of dearths in the time of the judges (Ruth 1:1), and of the kings (2 Sam. 21:1; 1 Kings 18:2; 2 Kings 4:38; 8:1).
- In New Testament times there was an extensive famine in Palestine (Acts 11:28) in the fourth year of the reign of the emperor Claudius (A.D. 44 and 45).
Synonyms of 'dearth'
From: Moby 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