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Definition of arid in English: aridadjective ˈarɪdˈɛrəd 1(of land or a climate) having little or no rain; too dry or barren to support vegetation. the arid plains north of Cape Town Example sentencesExamples - The inhabitants are dependent on crop farming which is difficult in the arid land.
- After filming he headed for Namibia, wanting to be in a dry hot and arid climate after four months on a boat.
- Intensive irrigation would reshape arid lands and revolutionize rural life.
- Next I'll tell you about my travels to the arid lands south-east of the great Kalahari desert.
- Its feedstock is a special variety of rapeseed bred to do well in the arid climate of southern Colorado.
- Ethanol has also been found to contribute to smog in arid climates due to its volatile nature.
- These findings are in contrast to earlier work that indicated an arid climate.
- Hemp grows in virtually all conditions from arid desert to more temperate climes.
- The arid climate would easily sap the nutrients and moisture out of them.
- As the sun sets on a bleak plain in the arid Karoo region, the temperature plummets to below freezing.
- From the arid climate of the Sahara to the cold wastes of Siberia, man has learnt how to cope in a wide variety of ways with the effects of the atmosphere.
- In the United States, such features show up sporadically in arid lands from New Mexico to Idaho.
- Communities in arid climates often implement strategies for dealing with a lack of rainfall.
- It is an arid climate with a few registered inches of rainfall in a normal year.
- The arid desert climate gets little rainfall, but the Rio Grande provides water for irrigation.
- Indeed, dry and warm storage frequently promotes after-ripening of seeds in species of warm and arid climates.
- The arid land of this autonomous republic supports a nomadic lifestyle.
- The arid climate makes the desert the best outdoor setting to keep planes free of corrosion.
- However, from Karadi to Dandi, the land is arid and the vegetation scrubby.
- In fact, she says, half of the water used in that arid climate is for lawns.
Synonyms dry, dried up, waterless, as dry as a bone, moistureless, parched, scorched, baked, thirsty dehydrated, desiccated barren, desert, waste, desolate infertile, non-fertile, unfruitful, unproductive, uncultivatable, sterile rare infecund, droughty, torrefied 2Lacking in interest, excitement, or meaning. his arid years in suburbia Example sentencesExamples - Yoga classes without this element seem to me arid and dull.
- Human stories are more interesting than an arid study of theology.
Synonyms dreary, dull, drab, dry, sterile, banal, colourless, monochrome, unstimulating, uninspiring, flat, boring, uninteresting, monotonous, lifeless, tedious, vapid, jejune, soul-destroying
Derivatives noun əˈrɪdəti For day after day south of Marzuk we saw nothing but stony wastes and sand dunes with never a blade of grass or bush to relieve the aridity. Example sentencesExamples - By the way, Darwin was a naturalist and most would take his comments about Australia's limited prospects as relating to soil quality and aridity, and the subsequently smaller potential population.
- A heightened sense of beauty somehow seems to have pervaded the desert region, perhaps to balance or counter the extreme aridity.
- More than anything I was struck by how incredibly green and lush everything looked after the dryness of the Spanish countryside. I have not been to Spain before, and I was quite taken aback by the aridity of it all.
- There was a world cooling - eight hypotheses exist to explain it! - with intense aridity that created Australia's sub-zones such as south-western and north-western Australia.
adverb The writer continues to investigate the ideas of care and love, but he also speculates aridly on the nature of literary creativity. Example sentencesExamples - I am struck by how many serious intellectuals we have writing at the moment, not aridly intellectual, but certainly with a spiritual dimension - the spirituality of the everyday.
- Almost all of the Act One numbers fall a trifle austerely - not to say aridly - on American ears, owing in part to the employment of Japanese instruments, melodies, and harmonies.
- Parris also seems to approve of the seemingly sophisticated but actually aridly semantic implied argument behind the phrase.
- The contributions to the Kelman symposium are - to be kind - patchy and smack aridly of academe.
nounˈarɪdnəsˈɛrədnəs The bouncy tempo and scale-based riff are the sparsest elements on the whole album and after 40 minutes of extraordinarily dense arrangements the aridness is a nice change of pace. Example sentencesExamples - The lands of the Southwest, in their aridness, showed him concretely the underlying fragility of the land community, and the interconnectedness of its members.
- Book releases, art exhibitions, theatre camps and more, holding out the promise of being a haven for creativity in these times of aridness.
Origin Mid 17th century: from French aride or Latin aridus, from arere 'be dry or parched'. Definition of arid in US English: aridadjectiveˈɛrədˈerəd 1(of land or a climate) having little or no rain; too dry or barren to support vegetation. Example sentencesExamples - From the arid climate of the Sahara to the cold wastes of Siberia, man has learnt how to cope in a wide variety of ways with the effects of the atmosphere.
- Next I'll tell you about my travels to the arid lands south-east of the great Kalahari desert.
- Ethanol has also been found to contribute to smog in arid climates due to its volatile nature.
- In the United States, such features show up sporadically in arid lands from New Mexico to Idaho.
- After filming he headed for Namibia, wanting to be in a dry hot and arid climate after four months on a boat.
- Hemp grows in virtually all conditions from arid desert to more temperate climes.
- As the sun sets on a bleak plain in the arid Karoo region, the temperature plummets to below freezing.
- Its feedstock is a special variety of rapeseed bred to do well in the arid climate of southern Colorado.
- The arid climate would easily sap the nutrients and moisture out of them.
- Intensive irrigation would reshape arid lands and revolutionize rural life.
- The arid desert climate gets little rainfall, but the Rio Grande provides water for irrigation.
- The arid climate makes the desert the best outdoor setting to keep planes free of corrosion.
- However, from Karadi to Dandi, the land is arid and the vegetation scrubby.
- Communities in arid climates often implement strategies for dealing with a lack of rainfall.
- Indeed, dry and warm storage frequently promotes after-ripening of seeds in species of warm and arid climates.
- These findings are in contrast to earlier work that indicated an arid climate.
- The inhabitants are dependent on crop farming which is difficult in the arid land.
- In fact, she says, half of the water used in that arid climate is for lawns.
- The arid land of this autonomous republic supports a nomadic lifestyle.
- It is an arid climate with a few registered inches of rainfall in a normal year.
Synonyms dry, dried up, waterless, as dry as a bone, moistureless, parched, scorched, baked, thirsty 2Lacking in interest, excitement, or meaning. his arid years in suburbia Example sentencesExamples - Human stories are more interesting than an arid study of theology.
- Yoga classes without this element seem to me arid and dull.
Synonyms dreary, dull, drab, dry, sterile, banal, colourless, monochrome, unstimulating, uninspiring, flat, boring, uninteresting, monotonous, lifeless, tedious, vapid, jejune, soul-destroying
Origin Mid 17th century: from French aride or Latin aridus, from arere ‘be dry or parched’. |