English-Thai Dictionary

dearth

N ความขาดแคลน  ความ อัตคัด  poverty scantiness kwam-kad-klaen

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEARTH

n.derth. 1. Scarcity; as a dearth of corn.
2. Want; need; famine;
3. Barrenness; sterility; as a dearth of plot.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DEARTH

Dearth, n. Etym: [OE. derthe, fr. dere. See Dear. ]

 

Defn: Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine. There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt. Acts vii. 11. He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. Shak. Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination. Dryden.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dearth

dearth |dərTH dərθ | ▶noun [ in sing. ] a scarcity or lack of something: there is a dearth of evidence. ORIGIN Middle English derthe (originally in the sense ‘shortage and dearness of food ’) (see dear, -th 2 ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

dearth

dearth |dəːθ | ▶noun a scarcity or lack of something: there is a dearth of evidence. • archaic a situation where food is in short supply. ORIGIN Middle English derthe (see dear, -th 2 ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

dearth

dearth noun a dearth of trained specialists: lack, scarcity, shortage, shortfall, want, deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, paucity, sparseness, scantiness, rareness; absence. ANTONYMS surfeit.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

dearth

dearth noun there is a dearth of properly trained specialists: lack, scarcity, scarceness, shortage, shortfall, want, deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, paucity, sparseness, meagreness, scantiness, rareness, infrequency, uncommonness, destitution, privation; famine, drought, poverty; absence, non-existence; rare exiguity, exiguousness. ANTONYMS abundance; surfeit.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dearth

dearth /dəː r θ /名詞 C ｟かたく ｠〖単数形で 〗不足, 欠乏 (lack, scarcity ); 飢饉 （ききん ）(famine )▸ a dearth of food 食糧不足 .