Paucity
61insufficiency — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of necessary amount Nouns 1. insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness; incompetence, impotence; deficiency, incompleteness, imperfection, shortcoming, emptiness, poorness, depletion, vacancy,… …
62poverty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of money Nouns 1. poverty, impecuniousness, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want, poverty line or level; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties; bad, poor, or …
63shortage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. deficiency, shortcoming. See insufficiency.Ant., abundance, overstock. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. deficit, deficiency, short fall, scant supply, curtailment; see also lack 1 . III (Roget s 3… …
64deficiency — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The state of being lacking] Syn. scarcity, insufficiency, paucity; see lack 1 . 2. [A lack] Syn. want, need, loss; see lack 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. imperfection, lack, shortcoming, insufficiency, inadequacy,… …
65scantiness — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. rareness, insufficiency, shortage, short supply, meagerness, inadequacy, dearth, paucity, need, poverty, sparsity. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition or fact of being deficient: defect, deficiency,… …
66Smallness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Smallness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 smallness smallness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 littleness littleness &c.(small size) 193 Sgm: N 1 tenuity tenuity Sgm: N 1 paucity paucity Sgm: N 1 fewness f …
67Fewness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Fewness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 fewness fewness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 paucity paucity small number Sgm: N 1 small quantity small quantity &c. 32 Sgm: N 1 rarity rarity Sgm: N 1 infrequenc …
68Insufficiency — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Insufficiency >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 insufficiency insufficiency Sgm: N 1 inadequacy inadequacy inadequateness Sgm: N 1 incompetence incompetence &c.(impotence) 158 Sgm: N 1 deficiency deficiency… …
69Paul — masc. proper name, from L. Paulum (nom. Paulus), Roman surname of the Aemilian gens, lit. small (see PAUCITY (Cf. paucity)). Cf. O.Fr. Pol, It. Paolo, Sp. Pablo, Rus. Pavel …
70parvo- — element used in forming scientific words (e.g. parvovirus), from comb. form of L. parvus small (see PAUCITY (Cf. paucity)) …
