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arid

adjective

1 arid

Lacking sufficient water or rainfall:
— An arid climate.

synonym: waterless.

Roget 169: unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund; sine prole; fallow; ... show more

Roget 340: dry, anhydrous, arid; adust, arescent; dried etc. v.; undamped; juiceless, sapless; sear; husky; rainless, ... show more

Roget 841: wearying etc. v.; wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, ... show more

2 arid

Lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless:
— A technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata.

synonyms: desiccate, desiccated.


Moby thesaurus: Saharan, academic, acarpous, anhydrous, athirst, barren, blah, blank, bloodless, bone-dry, bookish, boring, bromidic, celibate, characterless, childless, cold, colorless, dead, desert ... show more.

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