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shortage
Overview of noun shortage
The noun shortage has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (4) deficit, shortage, shortfall -- (the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit")
2. (2) dearth, famine, shortage -- (an acute insufficiency)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shortage
2 senses of shortage
Sense 1
deficit, shortage, shortfall
=> insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
=> amount
=> magnitude
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
dearth, famine, shortage
=> lack, deficiency, want
=> need, demand
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun shortage
1 of 2 senses of shortage
Sense 1
deficit, shortage, shortfall
=> oxygen deficit
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shortage
2 senses of shortage
Sense 1
deficit, shortage, shortfall
=> insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
Sense 2
dearth, famine, shortage
=> lack, deficiency, want
Antonyms of noun shortage
Member Holonyms of noun shortage
Substance Holonyms of noun shortage
Part Holonyms of noun shortage
Member Meronyms of noun shortage
Substance Meronyms of noun shortage
Part Meronyms of noun shortage
Meronyms of noun shortage
Holonyms of noun shortage
Attributes of noun shortage
Derived Forms of noun shortage
Domain of noun shortage
Domain Terms of noun shortage
Familiarity of noun shortage
shortage used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun shortage
2 senses of shortage
Sense 1
deficit, shortage, shortfall
> insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
=> meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
=> deficit, shortage, shortfall
=> scarcity, scarceness
=> slenderness
Sense 2
dearth, famine, shortage
> lack, deficiency, want
=> absence
=> dearth, famine, shortage
=> deficit
=> mineral deficiency
=> shortness
=> stringency, tightness
Meronyms of noun shortage
2 senses of shortage
Holonyms of noun shortage
Grep of noun shortage
shortage
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