- famine
- n1. scarcity of food, large-scale food shortage, bare subsistence.2. hunger, starvation, inanition, Rare. famishment; fast, diet, xerophagy, Lent; privation, deprivation, half rations, Chiefly Brit. short-commons, Psychiatry. anorexia.3. dearth, scarcity, scarceness, lack, want; deficiency, shortness, shortage, drought, insufficiency, stint; scantness, paucity, exiguity, meagerness, rareness; sparseness, seldomness, fewness, poorness, barrenness; depletion, exhaustion.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.