Defenition of the word drought

• Defenition of the word drought

  • A period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently prolonged so that the lack of water causes a serious hydrologic imbalance (such as crop damage, water supply shortage) in the affected area.
  • a temporary shortage of rainfall
  • a prolonged shortage
  • a shortage of rainfall

Synonyms for the word drought

• • dearth
  • deficiency
  • famine
  • lack

Similar words in the drought

• • drought
  • drought's
  • droughts

Hypernyms for the word drought

• • amount of time
  • dryness
  • period
  • period of time
  • time period
  • waterlessness
  • xerotes

See other words

• • What is wakening
  • The definition of lustfully
  • The interpretation of the word dissolutes
  • What is meant by rakish
  • The lexical meaning finagler
  • The dictionary meaning of the word finaglers
  • The grammatical meaning of the word finagled
  • Meaning of the word aspirants
  • Literal and figurative meaning of the word sallowest
  • The origin of the word caressed
  • Synonym for the word wakened
  • Antonyms for the word hankering
  • Homonyms for the word hanker
  • Hyponyms for the word thirst for
  • Holonyms for the word hungered
  • Hypernyms for the word hungering
  • Proverbs and sayings for the word coveted
  • Translation of the word in other languages hungers