- Scarcity
- Shortage
- Shortage of goods
- Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack
of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
- Acute food shortage
- Am in fine surroundings despite the food shortage
- Extreme food shortage
- Extreme scarcity
- Extreme scarcity of food
- Food shortage causing starvation
- Scarcity of food
- Barely sufficient
- In short supply
- Inadequate
- Inadequate, Meagre
- Limited
- Minimal
- Scarcely sufficient
- Doctor ought to have a dry spell
- Dry period
- Lack of rain
- Prolonged dry weather
- Prolonged shortage of rainfall
- Water famine
- Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such
dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of
plants; aridity.