Dearth

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–noun 

1. an inadequate supply; scarcity; lack: There is a dearth of good [engineers]. 

2. scarcity and dearness of food; famine. (饑荒)



—Synonyms 

1. shortage, want, paucity (缺乏), insufficiency.

—Antonyms 

1. abundance, plenty, sufficiency; surplus.





　

Similar to Cannes this year, the Lido's upcoming edition, which unspools Aug. 27-Sept. 6, is lighter on Yank pics, largely due to a dearth caused by the writers strike.



spool

【紡】線軸,線管





pauper & penury



dissolute (licentious)

desultory (random)



sparse 

grows thinly or is thinly strewn or sown, over a wide area: 

sparse [vegetation]; a sparse [population].