Word Type

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Adjective

Noun

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Proper Noun

The word "dry" can be used as adjective, adjective, noun, verb, phrase and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

phlegmy sweet wet wet wet

Defined As

opposite of wet

Derived Terms

Dry Chaco Dry Creek Dry Fork Dry January Dry Plain Mexican dry soup active dry yeast adry air dry air-dry airdry before the ink had time to dry before the ink was dry bleed dry blow dry blow-dry bone dry bone-dry damp-dry drier drily driness drip-dry dry abscess dry agent dry as a bone dry as a dead dingo's donga dry as a dead dingo's donger dry as a nun's cunt dry as a nun's nasty dry as dust dry bar dry bay dry beat dry behind the ears dry beriberi dry biscuit dry bite dry blower dry bob dry bone dry bread dry brushing dry bulb temperature dry cell dry cell battery dry chemical dry clean dry cleaner dry cleaner's dry cleaning dry closet dry cough dry cupping dry distillation dry dock dry drunk dry erase dry eye dry eye syndrome dry film thickness dry fire dry fly dry fog dry food dry ginger dry goods dry guillotine dry haze dry heater dry hire dry hole dry hop dry hopping dry humor dry humour dry hump dry hydrant dry ice dry jogger dry joggers dry lab dry labbing dry lake dry land dry lease dry light dry lightning dry line dry lodging dry lunch dry marker dry market dry martini dry mass dry matter dry measure dry meter dry mouth dry needling dry nurse dry off dry one's eyes dry orgasm dry out dry pail dry pailing dry plate dry point dry pond dry port dry pot dry powder dry powder inhaler dry razor dry reach dry rent dry riser dry rot dry run dry sausage dry season dry sex dry shaver dry shaving dry shower dry sink dry snitch dry socket dry spell dry sprinkler dry steering dry stone dry stone wall dry stove dry sump dry tech dry transfer dry up dry valley dry vomit dry wall dry wash dry weight dry well dry-aged dry-bulb temperature dry-clean dry-cleaner dry-cleaning dry-cure dry-cured dry-dock dry-erase dry-eyed dry-fire dry-fisted dry-foot dry-fry dry-gulch dry-handed dry-heave dry-hopped dry-lab dry-labber dry-labbing dry-nurse dry-rot dry-run dry-salt dry-shod dry-stone dry-tool dry-wall dryable drybag drybrush drydock drydown dryer dryfat drygulcher drying agent drying height drying machine drying oil drying time drying-up dryish dryland dryline dryly dryness drypainting drypoint drysalter dryscape dryside drystack drystone drysuit dryth drywall drywipe feet dry fluff-dry fordry freeze-dry freeze-drying hang out to dry high and dry home and dry in the green tree … in the dry ink isn't dry on keep one's powder dry keep the powder dry line-dry medium dry nondrying off-dry on the dry overdry quick-drying redry roughdry run like a dry creek self-dry self-drying semidry smoke-dry spin-dry spray-dry stay-dry suck dry sun-dry superdry the ink was not even dry touch-dry traditional dry red tumble dry tumble-dry ultradry undry undry updry watch paint dry wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer wind-dry you don't miss the water till the well runs dry you never miss the water till the well runs dry you never miss the water until the well runs dry

Distinct From

et wet

Etymologically Related To

drain dree drought

Context

australia chemistry computing farming law masonry pejorative petrochemistry science us

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

alter change crusader meliorist modify reformer reformist social reformer

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

chappy crisp dehydrated desiccated dry as a dead dingo's donger dry as a nun's nasty secco torrid windburned

Type Of (IsA)

reformer

Manner Of

change

Not Has Property

same as wet

Related Terms

desiccant desiccate desiccation

Related Terms

adjective alcohol alcoholic anhydrous any area arid arid desiccated ban beverage biological built chemical climate computation condition crust dampness describing desert desiccant desiccate desiccated desiccation don't dry season embellishment free involving lack lacking lacking water lacking wetness like like wet liquid martini matter milk moisture mortar mouth mouth is oil other particularly presence produce prohibitionist rather than regardless repeat sale sour state strong sugarless sun sweetness thirsty unable water water condition waterless wet wetness work yourself

Similar Terms

adust air dried air dry air-dried air-dry alcoholic alcoholic arid baked bone dry bone dry bone-dry brut brut desiccated dried dried dried out dried up dried-out dried-up dry shod dry-eyed dry-shod humorous humourous kiln dried kiln-dried medium dry medium-dry milkless milkless nonsweet parched plain plain rainless rainless scorched scorched sear sec sec semi dry semi-dry semiarid semiarid sere shriveled shrivelled sober solid solid sour sugarless sunbaked tearless tearless thirsty thirsty unemotional unemotional unexciting unproductive unproductive unstimulating unsweet waterless waterless withered withered

Synonym Network

droughty ironic juiceless sere teetotal thirsty waterless

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.