Quantity
Synonyms for shortage
Synonyms for shortage: dearth, deficit and scarcity. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for shortage
Interchangeable with shortage in this sense
Audited under shortage's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one shortage carries in that sense.
- dearthnoun, in the sense "a state in which there is not enough of something needed"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name shortage as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
one of these comes from shortage's own entry in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
a state in which there is not enough of something needed.
Farmers blamed the poor harvest on a shortage of seasonal rain.
The true synonym
dearth
Same sentence, swapped: Farmers blamed the poor harvest on a dearth of seasonal rain.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- overflow
- installment
- windfall
Where shortage turns up in the game
shortage is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where shortage is the trap
- surplusnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is glut, in the sense "an amount left over after requirements have been met", so shortage is there to be ruled out.
Play shortage
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so shortage reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from quantity at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. shortage carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.