'Drought' definitions:
Definition of 'drought'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Drought'
From: GCIDE
- Drought \Drought\ (drout), n. [OE. droght, drougth, dru[yogh][eth], AS. druga[eth], from drugian to dry. See Dry, and cf. Drouth, which shows the original final sound.]
- 1. Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity. [1913 Webster]
- The drought of March hath pierced to the root. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Thirst; want of drink. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Scarcity; lack. [1913 Webster]
- A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all history. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Drought'
From: Easton
- Drought From the middle of May to about the middle of August the land of Palestine is dry. It is then the "drought of summer" (Gen. 31:40; Ps. 32:4), and the land suffers (Deut. 28:23: Ps. 102:4), vegetation being preserved only by the dews (Hag. 1:11). (See DEW.)
Synonyms of 'drought'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absence,
- appetite,
- aridity,
- aridness,
- beggary,
- canine appetite,
- corkiness,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- deprivation,
- destitution,
- dryness,
- emptiness,
- empty stomach,
- famine,
- hollow hunger,
- hunger,
- hungriness,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- incompleteness,
- juicelessness,
- lack,
- need,
- omission,
- polydipsia,
- relish,
- saplessness,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- starvation,
- stomach,
- sweet tooth,
- tapeworm,
- taste,
- thirst,
- thirstiness,
- torment of Tantalus,
- want,
- wantage,
- waterlessness,
- watertight integrity,
- watertightness