What does dearthy mean?
Dearthy means Marked by dearth; exhibiting scarcity, paucity, or lack..
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/ˈdɜː.θi/ · adjective
Marked by dearth; exhibiting scarcity, paucity, or lack..
[…] the natural has become the artificial; the noble and desirable, the dearthy and uninteresting; the simple the complex; the intelligible the unintelligible.
In such a day as this, many a “little sanctuary” or worshipping knot of God's people (Ezek.11.16) may find the loved and deeply experienced Luther calculated, though dead, still to speak to their souls, through this his grand Testimony, more profitably, than many, or perhaps any, ministers they may be able to procure, in this dreary and dearthy last half of the nineteenth century.
The dearth of new British cars grows dearthier.
When the day of the cheap computer arrives, the problem of materials-dearth will only get dearthier because educational technology is still a writer's craft no matter what the medium of presentation is. So, where are the writers?
Use dearthy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dearthy means Marked by dearth; exhibiting scarcity, paucity, or lack..
Common synonyms include lacking, scarce, wanting.
Possible antonyms include abundant, lush.
[…] the natural has become the artificial; the noble and desirable, the dearthy and uninteresting; the simple the complex; the intelligible the unintelligible.
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