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