Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: dearth
IPA transcription: [d'ɝθ]
noun meaning of the word
  • 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.