aridadj.
/ˈarɪd/, U.S. /ˈɛrəd/ 1. Dry, without moisture, parched, withered.† a. of substances: Dry; anhydrous. Obsolete.† b. Medicine of the skin. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > arid or without water or moisture
waterlessOE
unwateryc1000
unwateredc1440
moistureless1562
droughty1596
floodless1606
squalid1615
arid1652
siccaneous1656
anhydrous1872
1652 L. S. Natures Dowrie ix. 17 Aride and liquide fruicts.
1748 W. Shenstone School-mistress xii, in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (ed. 2) I. 252 Lavender..in arid bundles bound.
1803 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 14 Arid white salt..Arid, may be appropriated to express the state of being devoid of combined water.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [adjective] > excessive dryness
arid1704
parchment-skinned1834
xerodermic1890
parchmented1893
xerodermatous1899
xerodermatic1913
1704 J. Swift Full Acct. Battel between Bks. in Tale of Tub 259 Her Body grew white, and arid, and split in Pieces with Driness.
1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 5 in A. Pope Wks. II My complexion is become adust, and my body arid.
c. of the ground or climate. Hence, barren, bare.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [adjective]
unbearingc825
deafc897
westyOE
wastumlessc975
wilderna1050
drya1340
gelda1350
barren1377
unfructuousa1382
poora1387
ungreenc1400
infecundc1420
farrow1494
fruitlessa1513
unfruitful1531
sterile1552
hungry1577
penurious1594
unfertile1596
infertile1598
howling1611
ungenitureda1616
arid1656
infecundous1661
ungendering1706
yeld1721
unproductive1725
infructuose1727
ungenerative1733
fallow1791
nihili-parturient1812
dowf1824
wastec1825
non-productive1830
unreproductive1836
infructuous1860
unvintaged1869
increative1877
ablastemic1881
submarginal1895
the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [adjective] > barren or desert > waterless
thirstya1425
carbuncled1577
unwatered1600
arid1656
starkc1740
thirstful1865
dry land1893
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > dry weather or climate > [adjective] > deficient in rainfall
dry1297
droughty1605
arid1730
Dryasdust1889
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Arid, dry, barren, withered, unfruitful.
1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 133 Without him Summer were an arid waste.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lviii. 272 The dry, arid look of the dusty square.
1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) Pref. 7 Arid sands and burning deserts.
2. figurative. Dry, uninteresting, barren, jejune.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious
dreicha1300
alangec1330
joylessa1400
tedious1412
wearifulc1454
weary1465
laboriousa1475
tiresome?a1513
irksome1513
wearisome1530
woodena1566
irkful1570
flat1573
leaden1593
barren1600
soaked1600
unlively1608
dulla1616
irking1629
drearisome1633
drear1645
plumbous1651
fatigable1656
dreary1667
uncurious1685
unenlivened1692
blank1726
disinteresting1737
stupid1748
stagnant1749
trist?1756
vegetable1757
borish1766
uninteresting1769
unenlivening1774
oorie1787
wearying1796
subjectless1803
yawny1805
wearing1811
stuffy1813
sloomy1820
tediousome1823
arid1827
lacklustrous1834
boring1839
featureless1839
slow1840
sodden1853
ennuying1858
dusty1860
cabbagy1861
old1864
mouldy1876
yawnful1878
drab1880
dehydrated1884
interestless1886
jay1889
boresome1895
stodgy1895
stuffy1895
yawnsome1900
sludgy1901
draggy1922
blah1937
nowhere1940
drack1945
stupefactive1970
schleppy1978
wack1986
1827 T. De Quincey On Murder in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 208/1 An old, arid, and adust metaphysician.
1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia II. ii. iv. 174 Ardworth grappled with his arid studies.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola III. xxv. 273 Arid of all good.
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