Drought and Need

Drought

Drought noun - A falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number.

Usage example: there's been a drought of good movies this year

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Need and drought are semantically related. in shortage topic. In some cases you can use "Need" instead a noun "Drought", when it comes to topics like dryness.

Nearby Word: droughty

Need

Need noun - A state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful.

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Synonyms for Need

Antonyms for Need

Drought and need are semantically related. You can use "Drought" instead a noun "Need".

Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful

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How words are described

long	long drought	long need
current	current drought	current need
severe	severe drought	severe need
extreme	extreme drought	extreme need
Other adjectives: intense, serious, huge, bad, frequent, national, magical, crippling.

Both words in one sentence

Drought Level of Doom: Level 23 in Descent II has no energy center, and you need to trigger a series of secret doors to get to the only energy powerups in the mine.

Source: Video Game / Descent
Pick these up only when you absolutely need to, and the drought isn't so bad.

Source: Video Game / Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
When Ella uses an example of how Mandy could use her magic to stop it from raining, Mandy points out that such magic could cause a long-term drought, and then undoing the spell in turn could lead to overdoing the need for water and uncontrollable floods.

Source: Literature / Ella Enchanted