All shortage synonyms

noun shortage

• impoverishment — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
• aridities — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
• impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
• want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
• famine — extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area.
• aridity — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
• leanness — (of persons or animals) without much flesh or fat; not plump or fat; thin: lean cattle.
• insufficience — Obsolete form of insufficiency.
• lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
• need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
• insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
• inadequacy — Also, inadequateness [in-ad-i-kwit-nis] /ɪnˈæd ɪ kwɪt nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being inadequate; insufficiency.
• deficiency — Deficiency in something, especially something that your body needs, is not having enough of it.
• neediness — a condition of want or need; poverty; indigence.
• faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
• inadequateness — Inadequacy.
• exiguity — The quality of being meagre or scanty.
• defectiveness — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
• in the hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
• deficit — A deficit is the amount by which something is less than what is required or expected, especially the amount by which the total money received is less than the total money spent.
• fewness — the state of being few or small in quantity; paucity.
• defalcation — the amount embezzled
• exiguousness — The quality of being meagre or scanty.
• defect — A defect is a fault or imperfection in a person or thing.
• impecuniousness — The property of being impecunious.
• dearth — If there is a dearth of something, there is not enough of it.
• inaptness — Quality of being inapt.
• austerity — Austerity is a situation in which people's living standards are reduced because of economic difficulties.
• incompleteness — not complete; lacking some part.
• necessitousness — The state or condition of impoverishment; material need, especially of an urgent nature.
• abjection — an abject state or condition