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1. (adj.) arid
extremely dry; parched:
arid land.
2. arid
barren or unproductive due to lack of moisture:
arid farmland.
3. arid
lacking vitality or imagination; sterile.
Etymology: (1645–55; (< F) < L āridus=ār(ēre) to be dry +-idus -id4; cf. ash1)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) arid, waterless
lacking sufficient water or rainfall
"an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"
2. (adj) arid, desiccate, desiccated
lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
"a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
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| Definition of 'arid' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) arid
exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren
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Sense: dry
The soil is rather arid.
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 Afrikaans: droog |
 Arabic: قاحِل، جاف، مُجْدِب |
 Bulgarian: сух |
 Brazilian: árido |
 Czech: suchý, vyprahlý |
 German: trocken |
 Danish: tør; ufrugtbar |
 Greek: ξηρός |
 Spanish: árido |
 Estonian: kuiv |
 Farsi: خشک |
 Finnish: kuiva |
 French: aride |
 Hebrew: צָחִיח |
 Hindi: शुष्क |
 Croatian: sušan |
 Hungarian: száraz |
 Indonesian: kering |
 Icelandic: skrælnaður, þurr |
 Italian: arido |
 Japanese: 乾いた |
 Korean: 마른 |
 Lithuanian: išdžiūvęs, sausas, menkas |
 Latvian: sauss; izkaltis |
 Malay: kontang |
 Dutch: dor |
 Norwegian: tørr, nedbørsfattig |
 Polish: suchy |
 Persian: خشک |
 Pashto: وچ |
 Portuguese: árido |
 Romanian: arid |
 Russian: сухой |
 Slovak: vyprahnutý |
 Slovenian: suh, nerodoviten |
 Serbian: sušan |
 Swedish: torr, förbränd |
 Thai: แห้งแล้ง |
 Turkish: kurak,çorak |
 Taiwanese: 乾燥的，貧脊的 |
 Ukrainian: сухий, посушливий |
 Urdu: بنجر، خشک ، بے آب وگیاہ |
 Vietnamese: khô cằn |
 Chinese: 干旱的，贫瘠的 |
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