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Arid

Arid Meaning & Definition
Arid Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Arid?

[adj] 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
[adj] lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Arid: desiccate | desiccated | dry | dull | waterless

Related Terms | Find terms related to Arid: 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 | Saharan | 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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Arid In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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