arid
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
arid
adj 1: lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate";
"a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"
[syn: {arid}, {waterless}]
2: 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}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
138 Moby Thesaurus words for "arid":
Saharan, 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, 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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