Arid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or woody plants: an arid climate.
  • adj. Lacking interest or feeling; lifeless and dull: a technically perfect but arid musical performance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Very dry.
  • adj. Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
  • adj. Devoid of value.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Dry; without moisture; parched with heat; hence, figuratively, uninteresting, lifeless, dull, pithless, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. lacking sufficient water or rainfall
  • adj. lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
  • Equivalent
    dry    dull   
    Cross Reference
    semiarid   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dry    barren    uninteresting   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Herod    harrod   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    treeless    barren    desolate    mountainous    uninhabited    inhospitable    fertile    sterile    trackless    rugged