arid
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- dry, barren, desert, parched, sterile, torrid, waterless
- boring, dreary, dry, dull, tedious, tiresome, uninspired, uninteresting

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Contrasted words: fecund, fertile, fruitful, appealing, bright, lively, sparkling, stimulating, vigorous, vivid
Related Words: barren, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, drab, dreary, flat, heavy, lackluster, leaden, unanimated, unlively, academic, bookish, pedantic, boring, humdrum, monotonous, unimaginative, uninspired

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English Thesaurus: dry, parched, ari

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ar‧id /ˈærəd, ˈærɪd/ adjective
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: French; Origin: aride, from Latin aridus]

1. arid land or an arid climate is very dry because it has very little rain:
Water from the Great Lakes is pumped to arid regions.

2. not having any new, interesting, or exciting features or qualities:
My mind was arid, all inspiration gone.
—aridity /əˈrɪdəti, əˈrɪdɪti/ noun [uncountable]

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dry having very little moisture, or no longer wet:
How do plants survive in hot dry conditions?
My mouth feels dry.
The clothes should be dry.
The ground was bone dry (=completely dry).
parched completely dry – used about land, or about someone’s lips, throat, skin etc:
The earth was so parched that there were huge cracks in it.
parched lips
arid extremely dry because of lack or rain and therefore difficult for growing crops:
the arid landscape of the Danakil desert
an arid mountain region

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