Synonyms:
dearth, paucity
Meaning: an insufficient quantity or number
Synonyms:
dearth, famine, shortage
Meaning: an acute insufficiency
Usage examples
He had done it, in dearth of other friends, that the room might not appear empty.
Then drought ensues, the most dreaded of all calamities in China, because bad harvests, dearth, and famine follow in its train.
Such a man must be very wretched in this pure dearth of morality; like a fisherman where no fish be; and most of us have enough to do to attend to our own morals.