Exporting water from an arid country to the rainy Europe is pure folly.
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Arid
//ˈæɹ.ɪd//
Synonyms for "arid" (151 found)
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Closest matches (31)
Strong matches (45)
Related words (75)
low-spiritedmenopausalmoisturelessmonotonousmundanenonfertilenonproducingnonproductivenonprolificpalepallidpedanticpedestrianploddingpointlesspokyponderousprosaicprosingprosy
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Adjective(1 words)
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Synonyms
8 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
12 entriesdistinct from
5 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
55 translations across 35 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- κάγκανος adj (very dry)
- ἄνυδρος adj (very dry)
Arabic
1 entries- قَاحِل adj (very dry)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- quraq adj (very dry)
- susuz adj (very dry)
Bengali
1 entries- শুষ্ক adj (very dry)
Bulgarian
2 entries- безводен adj (very dry)
- сух adj (very dry)
Campidanese Sardinian
2 entries- àridu adj (very dry)
- àrridu adj (very dry)
Catalan
1 entries- àrid adj (very dry)
Czech
2 entries- suchý adj (very dry)
- vyprahlý adj (very dry)
Dutch
1 entries- droog adj (very dry)
Esperanto
1 entries- arida adj (very dry)
Finnish
1 entries- kuiva adj (very dry)
French
1 entries- aride adj (very dry)
Galician
1 entries- árido adj (very dry)
Gallurese
1 entries- àrritu adj (very dry)
German
1 entries- arid adj (very dry)
Hungarian
1 entries- kiszáradt adj (very dry)
Indonesian
3 entries- arid adj (very dry)
- gersang adj (very dry)
- tandus adj (very dry)
Irish
1 entries- tur adj (very dry)
Italian
1 entries- arido adj (very dry)
Latin
2 entries- inaquōsus adj (very dry)
- āridus adj (very dry)
Malayalam
2 entries- വരണ്ട adj (very dry)
- ശുഷ്ക adj (very dry)
Navajo
1 entries- hóółtseii adj (very dry)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- قوراق adj (very dry)
- چوراق adj (very dry)
Persian
3 entries- بایر adj (very dry)
- خشک adj (very dry)
- کم باران adj (very dry)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- drieech adj (very dry)
Portuguese
1 entries- árido adj (very dry)
Russian
3 entries- безво́дный adj (very dry)
- засу́шливый adj (very dry)
- сухо́й adj (very dry)
Sardinian
2 entries- assuttu adj (very dry)
- àrridu adj (very dry)
Sassarese
2 entries- aramiddu adj (very dry)
- séccu adj (very dry)
Spanish
1 entries- árido adj (very dry)
Turkish
2 entries- kurak adj (very dry)
- çorak adj (very dry)
Ukrainian
3 entries- безво́дний adj (very dry)
- посу́шливий adj (very dry)
- сухи́й adj (very dry)
Urdu
1 entries- خشک adj (very dry)
Uyghur
1 entries- қурғақ adj (very dry)
Welsh
2 entries- cras adj (very dry)
- crin adj (very dry)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
It is an arid region, almost a desert.
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It's the most arid landscape I've ever seen.
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In the central portion of the great North American Continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert, which for many a long year served as a barrier against the advance of civilization. From the Sierra Nevada to Nebraska, and from the Yellowstone River in the north to the Colorado upon the south, is a region of desolation and silence.
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