Dearth vs Deficient - What's the difference?
dearth | deficient |
(rfc-sense) A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
(by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
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(obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
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Lacking something essential; often construed with'' in .
Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
As a noun dearth
is a period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.As an adjective deficient is
deficient.dearth
English
Noun
(en noun)- I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth , dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.
