Crossword clues for arid
arid
- Far from wet
- Bone dry
- Bereft of rain
- Very dry, like Death Valley
- Very dry, like a desert
- Very dry, as a climate
- Unfit for growing
- Short on rainfall
- Short of showers
- Like desert climates
- Like Arizona's climate, largely
- Inhospitable, in a way
- In desperate need of rain
- In a drought
- Getting little rainfall
- Far from scintillating
- Far from fertile
- Extremely dry, as a desert
- Exceptionally dry
- Desperately needing rain
- Supremely dry
- Receiving very little rain
- Rarely rained on
- Quite dry
- Practically rainless
- Nothing like wetlands
- Not suitable for farming, perhaps
- Mighty dry
- Low on water
- Like the Namib
- Like the dust bowl
- Like much of New Mexico's climate
- Like much of Arizona
- Like dry land
- Like arroyos
- Lacking precipitation
- Lacking in spirit
- Lacking in moisture
- Inhospitable to flora
- Having almost no rainfall
- Far from lush
- Far from humid
- Dust Bowl description
- Dried-up, as land
- Desert condition
- As dry as a desert
- Word found in "Kalahari desert"
- Without much rainfall
- Way short on rainfall
- Wanting in interest
- Very parched, as land
- Very dry, like the Sahara
- Very dry, like the Mojave Desert
- Very dry, climate-wise
- Unused to showering?
- Unlike a rainforest's climate
- Unfavorable for flora
- Uncultivated, probably
- Totally unlike wetlands
- Too dry to grow much
- Too dry for growth
- Too dry
- Suitable for succulents
- Short on rain
- Short on interest
- Severely needing rain
- Requiring irrigation
- Receiving little precipitation
- Rarely rainy
- Rarely getting rain
- Prosaic, as prose
- Prone to dust storms
- Pressed for precipitation
- Parched and then some
- Opposite of "emotive"
- Of little interest
- Nothing like swampland
- Not suitable for farming, in a way
- Not suitable for farming
- Not greenery-friendly
- Not good for farming
- Not even damp
- Not at all rainy
- Not apt to be arable
- More than dry
- Low on rainfall
- Like waterless climates
- Like the Sahara, moisture-wise
- Like the Sahara, humidity-wise
- Like the Mojave Desert
- Like the middle of Australia
- Like the Great Basin
- Like the Gobi Desert
- Like the dry season
- Like the climate in Death Valley
- Like the central planet in "Dune"
- Like the air on planes
- Like sunbaked land
- Like regions that get very little rain
- Like northern Sudan's climate
- Like New Mexico's climate, largely
- Like much of Saudi Arabia
- Like much of New Mexico
- Like much of Nevada
- Like much of Libya's climate
- Like much of Australia's interior
- Like much of Arabia
- Like most of Mars
- Like most of Antarctica
- Like Florida scrub
- Like cactus-friendly climates
- Like bone-dry land
- Like areas with arroyos
- Like Arctic regions
- Like a Southwestern desert
- Like a lot of New Mexico
- Like a dusty area
- Like a desert's climate
- Like a desert
- Like a desert, weather-wise
- Like a desert, moisture-wise
- Like a cactus habitat
- Lacking in life
- Lacking imaginativeness
- Lacking hydration
- Inhospitable to vegetation
- In want of water
- Ill-suited to farming
- Ill-suited for growing
- Ill-suited for farming
- Ideal for Joshua trees
- Having little rain
- Having little or no rain, like a desert climate
- Gobi description
- Getting very little rain
- Far from verdant
- Far from moist
- Extremely dry, weather-wise
- Dry, like the Sahara
- Dry, like a desert
- Dry, as desert climates
- Dry as the Sahara Desert
- Dry as the Sahara
- Dry as the Mojave
- Dry as the Gobi
- Dry as the Atacama
- Dry as desert sand
- Dry and monotonous
- Dry and barren
- Drought stricken
- Devoid of any ideas
- Death Valley descriptor
- Death Valley description
- Bad for growth, in a way
- Bad for growing
- Antonym of "interesting"
- Almost rainless
- Adjective for the Atacama
- "There is an ___ pleasure ...": Emily Dickinson
- Parched with heat
- Jejune
- Thirsty
- Uninspiring
- Needing irrigation
- Like the Negev
- Saharan
- Droughtlike
- Dry as a desert
- Unfertile
- Rainless and dusty
- Desertlike
- Moistureless
- Mojave-like
- Like Mongolia
- Unfruitful
- Mojavelike
- Lifeless
- Like Australia's western plateau
- Dry, as a desert
- Waterless
- Dry as a bone
- Having zero rainfall
- Very dry, as a desert
- Like the Kara Kum
- Sterile
- Bone-dry
- Fruitless
- Like Patagonia
- Uninteresting
- Desiccated
- Like a desert climate
- Colorless, as writing
- Like Death Valley's climate
- Dry-as-dust
- Saharalike
- Like the Sahara's climate
- Unimaginative
- Like Libya, largely
- Unrainy
- Like the Gobi's climate
- Like most of Mongolia
- Like the Kalahari
- Wanting water
- Unstimulating
- Gobi-like
- Like most of Oman
- Kalahari-like
- Like ideal cactus climate
- Barren
- Like a dust bowl
- Dry as dust
- Like droughty land
- Nearly rainless
- Infecund
- Completely uninteresting
- Insipid
- Like most of west Texas
- Far from arable
- Lacking interest
- Like Australia's Outback
- Like a lot of Australia
- Duller than dull
- Perennially parched
- Vapid
- Like arroyo areas
- Anhydrous
- Like the climate of 66-Down
- Of no interest
- Drought-prone
- Xeric
- Like much of the Southwest
- Not getting much rain
- Like Antarctica
- Like the planet in "Dune"
- Unlikely to get rain
- Like a cactus's climate
- Like an environment that's difficult for farming
- Like much of Namibia
- Like much of Arizona's climate
- Like most of Mauritania
- Like much of Chile
- Atacama adjective
- Sere
- Like the Sahel
- Hardscrabble
- Unproductive
- Droughty
- Not very engaging
- Devoid of fluid
- Anagram for raid
- Nonproductive
- Needing rain
- Nonfertile
- Unfit for farming, in a way
- Hot and dry
- Like the Sinai Peninsula
- Desert-dry
- Like the Mojave's climate
- Devoid of interest
- Without moisture
- Not irrigated
- Far from fecund
- Like the Spanish Sahara
- Lacking moisture
- Like twice-told tales
- Like a lunar sea
- Describing Death Valley
- Lacking life and interest
- Like the Sinai's el Tih
- Karroolike
- Gobian
- Very dry; uninteresting
- Area free of desert regions
- Assistance bringing in river - will address such a state
- Answer clear — and dry
- A clear desert
- Dry river saved by charity
- Dry river — assistance needed to cross
- Dry deserted country briefly in the ascendant
- Dry and bitter lacking tiniest hint of compassion
- A short trip is dull
- Dehydrated in the Kalahari Desert
- Dried up
- Extremely dry, as land
- Devoid of moisture, like a desert
- Like the desert
- Large vessel
- Like the Atacama
- Excessively dry, as land
- Beyond dry
- Desert descriptor
- Really dry
- Like the Badlands' climate
- Lacking rainfall
- In need of rain
- Very parched, as a region
- Lacking spirit
- Lacking in excitement
- Like deserts
- Extra dry
- Desperately dry
- Adjective for Death Valley
- In need of water
- In dire need of water
- Without water
- Unsuitable for farming
- Needing water
- Like the surface of Mars
- Like Arizona's typical climate
- Lacking water
- In need of irrigation
- Free of moisture
- Too dry for farming
- Suitable for cacti, environmentally
- Like Mars
- Ideal for cacti
- Having little rainfall
- Hardly suitable for farming
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arid \Ar"id\, a. [L. aridus, fr. arere to be dry: cf. F. aride.]
Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren. ``An
arid waste.''
--Thomson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "dry, parched," from French aride (15c.) or directly from Latin aridus "dry, arid, parched," from arere "to be dry," from PIE root *as- "to burn, glow" (see ash (n.1)). Figurative sense of "uninteresting" is from 1827. Related: Aridly.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Very dry. 2 Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually. 3 devoid of value.
WordNet
adj. lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross" [syn: waterless]
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 [syn: desiccate, desiccated]
Wikipedia
In software engineering, Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs (ARID) is a method to evaluate software architectures that combines aspects from architecture tradeoff analysis method (ATAM) and software architecture analysis method (SAAM) in a more tactical level.
Usage examples of "arid".
At night, when everybody was asleep, he and the famous airman Lyapidevsky found and rescued the Chelyuskin expedition, and with Vodopyanov he landed heavy aircraft on the pack ice at the North Pole, arid with Chkalov opened the unexplored air route to the United States across the Pole.
Gustave Duchanel, Algiers atomician, is building dozens of huge canals, through which water from the Mediterranean Sea now flows into the arid Sahara Desert.
She told a good story, and entertainingly so, and there was a great deal of laughter arid bonhomie among the four of them.
But if, on the other hand, the positive school of criminology denies, on the ground of researches in scientific physiological psychology, that the human will is free and does not admit that one is a criminal because he wants to be, but declares that a man commits this or that crime only when he lives in definitely determined conditions of personality and environment which induce him necessarily to act in a certain way, then alone does the problem of the origin of criminality begin to be submitted to a preliminary analysis, and then alone does criminal law step out of the narrow and arid limits of technical jurisprudence and become a true social and human science in the highest and noblest meaning of the word.
The high ridge of Chisinchi, stretching across the great plateau from Cotopaxi to Iliniza, separates the evergreen Valley of Quito from the arid and melancholy valleys of Cuenca and Ambato.
Chisinchi, stretching across the great plateau from Cotopaxi to Iliniza, separates the evergreen Valley of Quito from the arid and melancholy valleys of Cuenca and Ambato.
New forms of grain, developed on the Kagans and tested in dry Anchors, proved capable of growing well and swiftly in near-desert environments, taking what moisture they needed from the driest air and able to take minerals directly from the most arid soils, were now making the massive desert areas of Earth bloom once more.
But the Escapee remains most troubled in his mind over the occurrence arid tries to engage me in debate on its significance.
This absorption in material things and evanescent affairs engenders in the spirit an arid atmosphere of doubt and denial, in which no efflorescence of poetic and mystic faiths can flourish.
The great tide of human intelligence had long withdrawn, but the people had retained a good understanding of the land, its geography, and resources: efficient foraging was an essential skill if you were to find food and water in this desperately arid landscape.
A chill, arid wind blew from the mountains of the Jabal Alawite across the lava rock and gravel desert of Badiyat Ash-sham.
She always chose soft, rather feminine outfits, arid this morning she wore a simple lilac wool suit and a matching blouse with a frilly jabot which fell down the front, gold jewelry, and black patent pumps and handbag.
Vul was the second moon of Kalk, in the Svare System, a barren, arid place kept alive only by the Tarp which formed a clear dome over the settlement.
So far as the eye might reach there was nothing but arid sweltering sand and karoo scrub.
In fact, though the northern two-thirds of the Crimea was arid, the chain of mountains stretching from Balaklava in the southwest all the way to Kerch in the extreme east created a natural barrier that kept the southern coast subtropically pleasant.