'arid' definitions:
Definition of 'arid'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross" [syn: arid, waterless]
adjective
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: arid, desiccate, desiccated]
Synonyms of 'arid'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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