dry




free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet

"dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry"

Antonym:
  • wet

Nearest:
  • adust; baked; parched; scorched; sunbaked
  • air-dried
  • air-dry
  • arid; waterless
  • bone-dry; bone dry
  • desiccated; dried-out
  • dried
  • dried-up
  • dried-up; sere; sear; shriveled; shrivelled; withered
  • dry-shod
  • kiln-dried
  • rainless
  • semiarid
  • semi-dry
  • thirsty


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