Another word for dry
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Adjective
Having little or no liquid or moisture
- Lacking water; dry.
- Not requiring water, as a cooling system.
- Withered; dry:
- Devoid of moisture.
- Having no trace of moisture.
- Lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or woody plants:
- Lacking interest or feeling; lifeless and dull:
- Without water, especially water of crystallization.
See also:Having little or no precipitation
- Desiring to drink.
- Arid; parched:
- Craving something:
- Without rain.
- Lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or woody plants:
- Lacking interest or feeling; lifeless and dull:
See also:Disagreeable to the sense of hearing
- Loud, harsh, grating, or shrill:
- Forcefully assertive or severely critical:
- (of a sound) Resembling a squawk; raw and grating
- Making squawking sounds.
- Marked by or consisting of scratches:
- Making a harsh scratching noise:
- Harsh and irritating:
- Having a surface marked by irregularities, protuberances, or ridges; not smooth:
- Coarse or shaggy to the touch:
- Difficult to travel over or through:
- Rough-sounding and harsh:
- Boisterous and disorderly:
- Rough; grating.
- Present participle of jar.
- An act of jarring (in any sense).
- That jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful.
- Rough or grating in sound:
- Having or characterized by a husky, grating voice:
- Disagreeable to the sense of hearing:
- Disagreeable to the sense of sight:
- Unpleasantly coarse and rough to the touch:
- A grill or network of bars set in a window or door or used as a partition; a grate.
- A diffraction grating.
See also:Needing or desiring drink
- Strongly desirous; eager:
- Thirsty.
- Desiring to drink.
- Arid; parched:
- Craving something:
- Dried out from extreme heat:
- Roasted or dried:
- Very thirsty:
See also:Having a taste characteristic of that produced by acids
- Having a sharp pungent taste; sour.
- Sharp or bitter in tone or meaning; cutting.
- having a tang, or pleasantly sharp flavor
- Having a taste characteristic of that produced by acids; sharp, tart, or tangy.
- Made acid or rancid by fermentation.
- Having the characteristics of fermentation or rancidity; tasting or smelling of decay.
- Slightly sour in taste or in manner.
- Any of a class of substances whose aqueous solutions are characterized by a sour taste, the ability to turn blue litmus red, and the ability to react with bases and certain metals to form salts.
- A substance that yields hydrogen ions when dissolved in water.
- A substance that can act as a proton donor.
- Of, relating to, or producing acetic acid or vinegar.
- Having an acetic taste; sour-tasting.
- Sour or bitter tasting; acid.
- Sharp or biting, as in character or expression:
See also:Without addition, decoration, or qualification
- Not coated with varnish:
- Stated or otherwise presented without any effort to soften or disguise; plain:
- Without adornment or embellishment; simple or plain.
- Having few parts or features; not complicated or elaborate:
- Easy to understand, do, or carry out:
- Having or composed of only one thing, element, or part:
- Free from obstructions; open; clear:
- Obvious to the perception or mind; evident:
- Not elaborate or complicated; simple:
- Lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing; naked:
- Exposed to view; undisguised:
- Lacking the usual furnishings, equipment, or decoration:
- Lacking hair on the head.
- Lacking a natural or usual covering:
- Lacking treads:
See also:With little or no emotion or expression
- Not easily stirred or moved in feeling.
- Involving little or no emotion; rational.
- Relating or adhering to facts; literal.
- Straightforward or unemotional:
- Devoid of or not subject to emotion.
- Revealing no emotion; expressionless.
- Incapable of physical sensation.
Lacking liveliness, charm, or surprise
- Characterized by a lack of excitement or liveliness; unexciting or uninteresting:
- Lacking or done without inspiration or enthusiasm:
- Dull, unimaginative, and commonplace.
- Old-fashioned and stuffy:
- Indigestible and starchy; heavy:
- Not producing or incapable of producing offspring.
- Not producing or incapable of producing seed, fruit, spores, or other reproductive structures. Used of plants or their parts.
- Producing little or no vegetation; unfruitful:
- Lacking energy or enthusiasm; listless.
- Consisting or characteristic of prose.
- Matter-of-fact; straightforward.
- Lacking in imagination and spirit; dull.
- A person traveling on foot; a walker.
- Of, relating to, or made for pedestrians:
- Going or performed on foot:
- Relating or adhering to facts; literal.
- Straightforward or unemotional:
- Lacking distinction, radiance, or vitality; dull:
- Having no life; inanimate.
- Having lost life; dead.
- Not inhabited by living beings or capable of sustaining life:
- Lacking brightness, luster, or vitality; dull.
- Having a smooth, even surface:
- Having a relatively broad level surface in relation to thickness or depth:
- Being in horizontal position; lying down:
- Fastened in or to the soil:
- Attached or confined to the earth or to earthly concerns:
- Unimaginative; ordinary.
- Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring:
- Not brisk or rapid; sluggish:
- Not having a sharp edge or point; blunt:
- Of a dull grayish to yellowish brown.
- Of a light olive brown or khaki color.
- Faded and dull in appearance.
- Lacking color:
- Pale; pallid:
- Lacking animation, variety, or distinction; dull.
- Free of pathogenic microorganisms:
- Using methods to protect against infection by pathogenic microorganisms:
- Lacking animation or emotion:
- Lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or woody plants:
- Lacking interest or feeling; lifeless and dull:
See also:Arousing no interest or curiosity
- Physically or mentally tired.
- Expressive of or prompted by tiredness:
- Having one's interest, forbearance, or indulgence worn out:
- Causing physical or mental fatigue; tedious or tiresome.
- Causing weariness; tedious.
- Fatigued; exhausted.
- Arousing little or no interest or curiosity; boring.
- Causing fatigue or boredom, as from being unvarying or overly long; wearisome.
- Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring.
- Moving or progressing very slowly.
- Lacking sufficient ventilation; close.
- Having the respiratory passages blocked:
- Dull and boring:
- Sounded or spoken in an unvarying tone:
- Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety.
- Causing annoyance, weariness, or vexation:
- Lacking variety or excitement.
- Monotonous talk or routine.
- Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring:
- Not brisk or rapid; sluggish:
- Not having a sharp edge or point; blunt:
- Dismal; bleak.
- Boring; dull:
- Dreary.
- Uninteresting and tiresome; dull.
See also:
Verb
To make or become free of moisture.
- To make extremely dry, especially by exposure to heat:
- To dry or roast (corn, for example) by exposing to heat.
- To become very dry.
- To dry up or cause to dry up.
- To dry out thoroughly.
- To preserve (foods) by removing the moisture.
- To make dry, dull, or lifeless:
See also:To make or become physically hard
- To make solid, compact, or hard:
- To make strong or united:
- To become solid:
- To put in a specified position or arrangement; place:
- To put into a specified state:
- To cause to begin an action:
- To convert (wood or other organic matter) into a stony replica by petrifaction.
- To cause to lose vitality or become impervious to change; deaden:
- To stun or paralyze with terror; daze.
- To make hard; harden:
- To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.
- To make callous or obdurate:
- To make hard or harder:
- To enable to withstand physical or mental hardship:
- To make unfeeling, unsympathetic, or callous:
- To solidify or coagulate:
- To come together so as to form a whole or produce a result:
- To cause to solidify or coagulate:
- Of or relating to an actual, specific thing or instance; particular:
- Relating to nouns, such as flower or rain, that denote a material or tangible object or phenomenon.
- Existing in reality or in real experience; perceptible by the senses; real:
- A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.
- A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake that is baked or fried.
- A flat rounded mass of hashed or chopped food that is baked or fried; a patty.
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Another word for dry
Modifier
Having little or no moisture
- Having no trace of moisture.
- Extremely tired; exhausted or worn out.
- Relating to or being uranium whose fissionable isotope uranium 235 has been mostly removed, consisting primarily of the remaining isotope uranium 238.
- Withered; dry:
- Not having been moistened.
- Devoid of sap; dry.
- Lacking spirit or energy.
- Covered or filled with dust.
- Consisting of or resembling dust; powdery.
- Tinged with gray.
- A dry, often sandy region of little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation.
- A region of permanent cold that is largely or entirely devoid of life.
- An apparently lifeless area of water.
- A substance, such as calcium oxide or silica gel, that has a high affinity for water and is used as a drying agent.
- Resistant to pressure; not readily penetrated; firm or solid:
- Well protected from an attack, as by aerial bombardment:
- Requiring great effort or endurance:
- Cooked by baking.
- Intoxicated, especially by marijuana.
- not letting rain through; shedding rain
- to make rainproof
- Impervious to or unaffected by water.
- Made of or coated or treated with rubber, plastic, or a sealing agent to prevent penetration by water.
- A material or fabric that is impervious to water.
- Desiring to drink.
- Arid; parched:
- Craving something:
- Lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing; naked:
- Exposed to view; undisguised:
- Lacking the usual furnishings, equipment, or decoration:
- Without rain.
- Lacking motivation and energy; very tired; knackered.
- Of a battery, empty of charge; discharged.
- Simple past tense and past participle of drain.
- Without water, especially water of crystallization.
- simple past tense and past participle of dehydrate
- From which the water has been removed.
- Suffering from dehydration.
- Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of female animals.
- Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of women.
- Not producing or incapable of producing fruit:
- simple past tense and past participle of evaporate
- Lacking water; dry.
- Not requiring water, as a cooling system.
- Dried out from extreme heat:
- Roasted or dried:
- Very thirsty:
- Lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or woody plants:
- Lacking interest or feeling; lifeless and dull:
Thirsty
- Strongly desirous; eager:
- Thirsty.
- simple past tense and past participle of dehydrate
- From which the water has been removed.
- Suffering from dehydration.
- Dried out from extreme heat:
- Roasted or dried:
- Very thirsty:
See also:Lacking in interest
- Having a smooth, even surface:
- Having a relatively broad level surface in relation to thickness or depth:
- Being in horizontal position; lying down:
- Tiresome by reason of length, slowness, or dullness; boring.
- Moving or progressing very slowly.
- Arousing little or no interest or curiosity; boring.
- Uninteresting and tiresome; dull.
See also:Possessed of intellectual humor
- Causing a stinging sensation; nipping:
- Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings; caustic:
- Of or relating to insects and certain other animals that wound the skin with a sting, mouthparts, or fangs.
- Scornfully or cynically mocking:
- Given to making sardonic remarks:
- Kept under control; subdued or moderate:
- Characterized by self-restraint; reserved:
- Prevented from moving; held down or secured:
- Full of or characterized by humor; funny:
- Employing or showing humor; witty:
- Given to moods or whims; capricious.
- Amusingly odd or whimsically comical.
- A buffoon.
- Funny in an understated, sarcastic, or ironic way:
- Temporarily twisted in an expression of distaste or displeasure:
- Abnormally twisted or bent to one side; crooked:
- Characterized by or constituting irony.
- Given to the use of irony.
- Poignantly contrary to what was expected or intended:
- Of, containing, or seasoned with salt.
- Suggestive of the sea or sailing life.
- Witty; pungent; earthy:
- Clever or cunning, especially in the practice of deceit.
- Stealthy or surreptitious:
- Playfully mischievous:
- Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by base or selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others:
- Selfishly or callously calculating:
- Negative or pessimistic, as from world-weariness:
- Expressing or marked by sarcasm.
- Given to using sarcasm:
- So slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; elusive:
- Difficult to understand; abstruse:
- Able to make fine distinctions:
- Of, relating to, or characterized by satire.
- Given to or fond of making satirical remarks.
Having restrictions on alcoholic liquors
- Of, relating to, or practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages.
- Total; absolute.
- Extending continuously in the same direction without curving:
- Having no waves or bends:
- Not bent or bowed; rigid or erect:
- Lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or woody plants:
- Lacking interest or feeling; lifeless and dull:
- Having no trace of moisture.
- Kept within certain limits; limited:
- Excluding or unavailable to certain groups:
- Available only to authorized persons:
- Not intoxicated or affected by the use of alcohol or drugs.
- Abstaining from or habitually abstemious in the use of alcoholic drink or other intoxicants:
- Straightforward and serious; not exaggerated, emotional, or silly:
- Eating and drinking in moderation.
- Characterized by abstinence or moderation:
- Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]