Dry spell

Synonyms for "dry spell" (16 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Noun(4 words)

Strong matches (4)

Noun(4 words)
drouthesdrouthsdry patchdry up

Related words (8)

Noun(7 words)
inactivityneglect wateringrainless periodslumpslumpswindless spellwriter's block
Determiner(1 words)
no water

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

5 entries
periodphasetime periodtime spanweather pattern

More specific

4 entries
creative droughtdry stretchrainless intervalwriter's block

Collocations

6 entries
dry stretchextended dry spelllong dry spellperiod of drynessrainless intervalrainless period

Inflections

1 entries
dry spells

Derivations

1 entries

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell / Jimmy Rogers on the Victrola up high

Source: wiktionary

The rains, it seemed, were over, and a dry spell was upon them […]

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The only place unaffected by the persistent dry spell was the city of Milwaukee […]

Source: wiktionary

The first type is of course the dry spell when you can't think of any ideas. The second type is when kids just have a dry spell in writing.

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