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Source: gcide
Arid \Ar"id\, a. [L. aridus, fr. arere to be dry: cf. F. aride.]
Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren. "An
arid waste." --Thomson.

[1913 Webster]


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Source: wn
arid
adj 1: lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a
waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"
[syn: {waterless}]
2: lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect
but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate
romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles
into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo [syn: {desiccate},
{desiccated}]

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Source: moby thes
138 Moby Thesaurus words for "arid":
Saharan, academic, acarpous, anhydrous, athirst, barren, blah,
blank, bloodless, bone-dry, bookish, boring, bromidic, celibate,
characterless, childless, cold, colorless, dead, desert, desolate,
dismal, drab, draggy, drained, drearisome, dreary, dried-up,
droughty, dry, dry as dust, dryasdust, dull, dusty, earthbound,
effete, elephantine, empty, etiolated, exhausted, fade, fallow,
flat, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, heavy, high and dry, ho-hum,
hollow, humdrum, impotent, inane, ineffectual, inexcitable,
infecund, infertile, insipid, issueless, jejune, juiceless,
lackluster, leached, leaden, lifeless, like parchment, literal,
low-spirited, menopausal, moistureless, monotonous, mundane,
nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, pale, pallid,
pedantic, pedestrian, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous,
prosaic, prosing, prosy, sandy, sapless, sere, sine prole, slow,
solemn, spiritless, staid, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stolid, stuffy,
sucked dry, superficial, tasteless, tedious, teemless, thirsting,
thirsty, unanimated, uncultivated, undamped, unfanciful, unfertile,
unfruitful, unideal, unimaginative, uninspired, uninteresting,
uninventive, unlively, unoriginal, unplowed, unpoetic,
unproductive, unprolific, unromantic, unromanticized, unsown,
untilled, unwatered, vapid, virgin, waste, wasted, waterless,
weariful, wearisome, without issue, wooden


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