famine - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

Synonyms

• famine

More generic

• calamity
• cataclysm
• catastrophe
• disaster
• tragedy

More specific

• the Great Calamity
• the Great Hunger
• the Great Starvation
• the Irish Famine

Noun

an acute insufficiency

Synonyms

• dearth
• famine
• shortage

More generic

• deficiency
• lack
• want

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