arid

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

adjective

1. lacking sufficient water or rainfall
- an arid climate
- a waterless well
- miles of waterless country to cross
• Syn:
waterless
• Similar to:
dry
• Derivationally related forms:
waterlessness (for: waterless), aridity, aridness
2. 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
• Similar to:
dull

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  desiccate, desiccated, waterless