dearth
I
noun
absence, caritas, deficiency, destitution, exiguity, exiguousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, indigence, inopia, insufficiency, lack, leanness, littleness, meagerness, need, paucity, penuria, penury, pinch, poorness, poverty, privation, rareness, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, short supply, shortage, smallness of number, sparsity, want, wantage
II
index
deficiency, deficit, delinquency (shortage), indigence, insufficiency, need (deprivation), paucity, poverty, privation
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006