An insufficient quantity or number.

synoniem: dearth.

Roget 32: smallness etc. adj.; littleness etc. (small size) 193; tenuity; paucity; fewness etc. (small number) 103; meanness, insignificance (unimportance) 643; mediocrity, moderation.    small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight^†, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau^†, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet^†, flitter, gobbet^†, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive^†; snip, snippet; snick^†, snack, snatch, slip, scrag^†; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.    nutshell; thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful; fragment; fraction etc. (part) 51; drop in the ocean.    animalcule etc. 193.    trifle etc. (unimportant thing) 643; mere nothing, next to nothing; hardly anything; just enough to swear by; the shadow of a shade.    finiteness, finite quantity.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 103: fewness etc. adj.; paucity, small number; small quantity etc. 32; rarity; infrequency etc. 137; handful, maniple; minority; exiguity.    [Diminution of number] reduction; weeding etc. v.; elimination, sarculation^†, decimation; eradication.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 640: insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness; incompetence etc. (impotence) 158; deficiency etc. (incompleteness) 53; imperfection etc. 651; shortcoming etc. 304; paucity; stint; scantiness etc. (smallness) 32; none to spare, bare subsistence.    scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition, starvation, famine, drought.    dole, mite, pittance; short allowance, short commons; half rations; banyan day.    emptiness, poorness etc. adj.; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb tide; low water; a beggarly account of empty boxes" [Romeo and Juliet]; indigence etc. 804; insolvency etc. (nonpayment) 808.    ... meer laten zien

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