The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LACK , but the solution may also be ABSENCE which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in Universal uClick).
Dearth crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LACK | 61 % | 4 |
| NEED | 14 % | 4 |
| PENURY | 6 % | 6 |
| SCARCITY | 6 % | 8 |
| FAMINE | 3 % | 6 |
| ABSENCE | 3 % | 7 |
| SHORTAGE | 3 % | 8 |
| PAUCITY | 3 % | 7 |
| WANT | 3 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Dearth
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- famine
- paucity
- shortage
- scarcity
- penury
- poverty
- deficit
- deficiency
- inadequacy
- insufficiency
- shortcoming
- lack
Crossword Answer definitions
LACK noun- A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
- A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
- To be without, to need, to require.
- To be short (of or for something).
- To be in want.
- To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result LACK
- Be caught short
- Be in need of
- Absence
- Ain't got
- Deficiency
- Paucity
- Shortfall
- Be deficient in
- Are deficient in
- Dearth
More clues leading to the result NEED
- Burden
- Poverty-stricken state
- Call for
- Can't live without
- Exigency
- Require
- Requirement
- Requisite
- Scholarship factor
- Shortfall
More clues leading to the result PENURY
- Indigence
- Extreme want
- Dearth
- Severe frugality
- Extreme poverty
- Severe circumstances
- To which Père Goriot is reduced.
- Privation.
- Status in "for poorer" category.
- Problem of have-nots.
More clues leading to the result SCARCITY
More clues leading to the result FAMINE
- Feast antithesis
- Feast's opposite
- Severe food shortage
- Acute insufficiency
- One of the Four Horsemen
- Feast alternative
- Scarcity of food
- Third World concern
- Big food problem
- Extreme scarcity
More clues leading to the result ABSENCE
- Issue for Marco Rubio, vis-a-vis his Senate voting
- Attendance-book notation
- "___ sharpens love, presence strengthens it" (Ben Franklin)
- Nonappearance
- Truant's offense
- Failure to show up
- Lack
- Truancy
- Fondness intensifier?
- It makes the heart grow fonder, they say
More clues leading to the result SHORTAGE
- Deficiency
- Scarcity
- Trouble in the till
- Dearth
- Insufficient supply
- Deficit.
- Limited supply.
- Lack.
- Deficit
- Want