Arid
['ærɪd]
Definition
(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' .
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Definition
(a.) Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Dry, dried up, parched with heat.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dry, parched, sterile, unproductive
ANT:Moist, dewy, watered, fertile, luxuriant, exuberant, verdant, blooming,productive
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Definition
adj. dry: parched.—ns. Arid′ity Ar′idness.
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Examples
- Does he live on this arid peak? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is a scorching, arid, repulsive solitude. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I often walked all day, through the burning noon and the arid afternoon, and the dusk evening, and came back with moonrise. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Guayule is a resinous rubber secured from a two-foot shrub that grows on the arid plains of Texas and Northern Mexico. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Paul would not stand any prolonged experience of this sort of dialogue I knew; but he certainly merited a sample of the curt and arid. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The arid island of Malta came in sight, and they saw its precipitous shores rising sternly from the tideless waters. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- So too was Arid?us, the weak-minded half-brother (see § 2). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- An hour later found us in the time-rounded gullies of the hills, amid the beautiful flowering plants that abound in the arid waste places of Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I am, sir, even I who dislike such arid chips of wisdom; but 'tis an excellent proverb, which has borne the wear and tear of centuries. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- My arid heart revives; my affliction is lightened; my strait and struggle are gone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The same has been done in the arid region of the United States. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Alexander had a brother of weak intellect, Arid?us, whom the Persian governor of Caria sought as a son-in-law. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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