English-Thai Dictionary

drought

N ความ แห้งแล้ง  ความขาดแคลน  rainlessness scarcity kwam-hang-lang

 

droughty

A ที่ แห้งแล้ง ขาดแคลน น้ำ  dry ti-haeng-laeng-khad-klaen-nam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DROUGHT

[See Drouth. ]

 

DROUGHTINESS

n.Drouthiness.

 

DROUGHTY

a.Drouthy.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DROUGHT

Drought, n. Etym: [OE. droght, drougth, dru, AS. druga, from drugian to dry. See Dry, and cf. Drouth, which shows the original final sound. ]

 

1. Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity. The drought of March hath pierced to the root. Chaucer. In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. Dryden.

 

2. Thirst; want of drink. Johnson.

 

3. Scarcity; lack. A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all history. Fuller.

 

DROUGHTINESS

DROUGHTINESS Drought "i *ness, n.

 

Defn: A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain.

 

DROUGHTY

DROUGHTY Drought "y, a.

 

1. Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust. Droughty and parched countries. Ray.

 

2. Dry; thirsty; wanting drink. Thy droughty throat. Philips.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

drought

drought |drout draʊt | ▶noun a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall; a shortage of water resulting from this. • [ usu. with modifier ] a prolonged absence of something specified: he ended a five-game hitting drought. • archaic thirst. DERIVATIVES drought i ness noun, drought y adjective ORIGIN late Old English drūgath ‘dryness, ’ of Germanic origin; compare with Dutch droogte; related to dry .

 

Oxford Dictionary

drought

drought |draʊt | ▶noun a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water. • [ usu. with modifier ] a prolonged absence of something specified: he ended a five-game goal drought. • [ mass noun ] archaic thirst. ORIGIN late Old English drūgath ‘dryness ’, of Germanic origin; compare with Dutch droogte; related to dry .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

drought

drought noun this year's drought was devastating to cotton growers: dry spell, lack of rain, shortage of water.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

drought

drought noun dry spell, dry period, lack of rain, shortage of water; Scottish drouth.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

drought

drought /draʊt / (! -ough-は /aʊ /) 名詞 複 ～s /-ts /C U 1 旱魃 （かんばつ ）, 長期の日照り ; (慢性的な )水不足 ▸ Mexico has been suffering a drought for the last 5 years .メキシコはこの5年間ずっと旱魃に見舞われている 2 欠乏 .3 ｟古 ｠のどの渇き .dr ó ught i ness 名詞 dr ó ught ly /-li /形容詞