arid
arid
Definition
arid (ar′id, er′-)
adjective
- lacking enough water for things to grow; dry and barren
- not interesting; lifeless; dull
Etymology: L aridus < arere, to be dry: see ash
arid′·ity (ə rid′ə tē) noun or ar′id·ness
ar′idly adverb
arid
Synonyms
arid
modif.
Dry
dry, parched, desert, dried; see dry 1.Barren
desolate, waste, desert; see sterile 2.Dull
uninteresting, flat, dry; see dull 4. See syn. study atdry.
arid
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- have: Some feel that OUR hi-tech version of that high-performance vehicle now has to have wings arid noisy jet engines.
Modifies a noun
- steppe: This remote and arid steppe across which Ghengis Khan marched his vast army, was once the haunt of nomadic farmers.
- desert: Will Britain become an arid desert or a frozen waste?
- canyon: These are not the arid canyons you normally associate with Arizona.
- scrub: Eventually we will reach the pass and the lush cloud forests give way first to Puna then arid montane scrub.
- gorge: Trek over wild rugged mountains; through arid gorges; attempt an ascent of Jebel Toubkal, the highest mountain in North Africa.
- plateau: They would pass through wonderful forests at first and then have to march for 200 miles over the lofty arid plateau of Tibet.
Modifying Another Word
- extremely: Farming in these extremely arid conditions is made possible only with forced irrigation.
- rather: When images started to come to his mind they were of walking down a rather arid valley.
- very: Kenya: Found across much of the country except in the very arid areas of the NE.
- increasingly: Something struck him which linked directly with the dream-life which alone these days motivated his increasingly arid quest.
- seasonally: Outlines of the problems of unsustainable land management in arid and seasonally arid Mediterranean and tropical environments, in particular water use and salinity.
- mostly: Although it is mostly arid, there are several high mountains ( Mount.
Used with adjective complement
- become: I recall a time some years back when prayer and worship had become particularly arid.
