Vocabulary
Paucity
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts.
Urdu meaning
کمی، قلت، کم مقدار
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Rising diabetes, malnutrition and HIV/AIDS weaken immunity, rendering them more vulnerable to TB; abject poverty and paucity of funds present enormous challenges to TB control.
- The paucity of intelligent leadership elicited from the German Gen Erich Ludendorff the backhanded compliment that the British soldiers were `lions, led by donkeys`.
- The underutilised capacity of these universities due to the paucity of funds can be optimised with quick results; the incremental capital costs would be negligible.
- Second is the paucity of channels for formal sector savings.
- Given the paucity of democratic progress in our history, many rightly forgave the PPP and PML-N`s bigger sins, given their better politics at the time.
Synonyms
scarcity, sparseness, sparsity, dearth, shortage, rarity, rareness, poverty,
Curator example
“a paucity of information”
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