ARID: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for ARID?

Need another word that means the same as “arid”? Find 27 synonyms and 30 related words for “arid” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Arid” are: desiccate, desiccated, waterless, dry, dried up, parched, scorched, baked, thirsty, dreary, dull, drab, sterile, banal, colourless, monochrome, unstimulating, uninspiring, flat, boring, uninteresting, monotonous, lifeless, tedious, vapid, jejune, soul-destroying

Arid as an Adjective

Definitions of "Arid" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “arid” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• (of land or a climate) having little or no rain; too dry or barren to support vegetation.
• Lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless.
• Lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless-C.J.Rolo.
• Lacking in interest, excitement, or meaning.
• Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.

Synonyms of "Arid" as an adjective (27 Words)

baked	(bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven. I just want to get baked and watch a movie.
banal	Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. Songs with banal repeated words.
boring	So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness. I ve got a boring job in an office.
colourless	Weak in color; not colorful. Her colourless cheeks.
desiccate	Lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless. A prissy and emotionless creature settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery.
desiccated	Preserved by removing natural moisture. Old boxes of desiccated Cuban cigars.
drab	Causing dejection. Her drab personality.
dreary	Causing dejection. A series of dreary dinner parties.
dried up	Preserved by removing natural moisture.
dry	Of noodles not served in a soup but in a sauce or with dry ingredients. The cows went dry in the wintertime.
dull	Blunted in responsiveness or sensibility. Dull pain.
flat	Of a key having a flat or flats in the signature. Thirty five acres of flat countryside.
jejune	Lacking in nutritive value. Jejune novel.
lifeless	Not having the capacity to support life. It was a lifeless party until she arrived.
monochrome	(of a photograph or picture, or a television screen) consisting of or displaying images in black and white or in varying tones of only one colour.
monotonous	Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety. The statistics that he quotes with monotonous regularity.
parched	Toasted or roasted slightly. Parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet.
scorched	Burned by flames or heat. Aloe vera has benefits beyond cooling scorched skin.
soul-destroying	Destructive to the spirit or soul.
sterile	Incapable of reproducing. A sterile needle and syringes.
tedious	Using or containing too many words. Tedious days on the train.
thirsty	Feeling a need to drink something. Joe was as thirsty for scandal as anyone else.
uninspiring	Depressing to the spirit. An uninspiring game that United scarcely deserved to win.
uninteresting	Arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement. A very uninteresting account of her trip.
unstimulating	Not arousing interest or enthusiasm. Unstimulating conversation.
vapid	Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging; bland. Vapid tea.
waterless	Lacking sufficient water or rainfall. Miles of waterless country to cross.

Usage Examples of "Arid" as an adjective

• A technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata.
• An arid climate.
• His arid years in suburbia.
• The arid plains north of Cape Town.

Associations of "Arid" (30 Words)

anhydrous	Without water; especially without water of crystallization.
aridity	The quality of yielding nothing of value.
barren	A barren tract or tracts of land. The barren fig tree.
climatic	Relating to climate. Climatic changes.
dehydrate	Remove water from (food) in order to preserve and store it. Alcohol and coffee both dehydrate the skin.
desert	Desert a cause a country or an army often in order to join the opposing cause country or army. The tourists have deserted the beaches.
desiccant	A substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture. Natural desiccants cause fleas to dehydrate and die.
desiccate	Remove the moisture from (something); cause to become completely dry. Years of drought have desiccated the soil.
desiccated	(of food) dried in order to preserve it. A desiccated history of ideas.
desiccation	The process of extracting moisture. Long periods of drought have led to the desiccation of farming land.
desolate	Make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy. The desolate surface of the moon.
dried	Preserved by removal or evaporation of moisture. The ink has dried.
drought	A prolonged shortage. When England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten year drought.
dry	Become dry. A mind dry of new ideas.
dryness	Objectivity and detachment. There s a lovely dryness to this straw coloured wine.
evaporation	The process of turning from liquid into vapour. Snow cover prevents evaporation of water from the soil.
expanse	A wide scope. The green expanse of the forest.
humidity	A quantity representing the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere or in a gas. The humidity should be supplied by regularly spraying the leaves.
infertile	(of a person, animal, or plant) unable to reproduce itself; unable to have young. Infertile couples are offered specialist advice.
infertility	Inability to conceive children or young. Ecological problems such as increasing soil infertility.
parch	Cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat. His crops parched during the last two summers.
scorch	Become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions. The sun has scorched the fields and the poppies have all but disappeared.
sear	Burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color. When summer sears the plains.
semiarid	Somewhat arid. A semiarid region with little annual rainfall.
singe	A superficial burn. My eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames.
stark	Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers. A stark landscape.
sterile	Free from bacteria or other living microorganisms; totally clean. Vast tracts of sterile desert land.
thirst	A feeling of needing or wanting to drink something. His thirst for knowledge was mainly academic.
windswept	Untidy in appearance after being exposed to the wind. The windswept moors.
withered	Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness-W.F.Starkie. He did well despite his withered arm.