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Dry

🔄 Synonyms of "Dry"

30 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
wryverb	Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic.
plainnoun	Simple, unaltered.
unemotional	Showing little or no feeling.
arid	Very dry.
solidnoun	(of an object or substance) That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid, gas or plasma.
desiccated	dried
scorched	Dried, damaged or burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat.
humorous	Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
ironic	(of a situation) Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.
parched	Very thirsty.
withered	Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
thirstynoun	Needing to drink water or any liquid that can supply water.
adust	(by extension) Hot and dry; thirsty or parched.
unproductive	Not productive; useless; fruitless.
humourous	(chiefly UK, uncommon, proscribed) Alternative spelling of humorous. [Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.]
teetotalnoun	Abstinent from alcohol; never drinking alcohol.
brut	(of champagne) very dry, and not sweet
waterless	Dry, arid, lacking water.
juiceless	Without juice or sap.
shriveled	Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
sunbaked	Baked by the heat of the sun.
dried	Without water or moisture, said of something that has previously been wet or moist; resulting from the process of drying.
baked	That has been cooked by baking.
dry outverb	(colloquial, ambitransitive, idiomatic) To (cause to) sober up; to cease to be drunk; to quit using drugs or alcohol.
dry-shod	With one's footwear dry, not in or under water, usually referring to walking on ground which at another time, or usually, is covered with deep water.

↔️ Antonyms of "Dry"

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
sweetnoun	Tasting of sugars.
wetnoun	Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
phlegmy	Charged with phlegm.
lactating	producing or secreting milk

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Dry"

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
bone-dry	(idiomatic) Totally dry; without moisture.
tearless	Without tears.
sere	(archaic or literary, poetic) Without moisture; dry.
rainless	Without rain.
dry-eyed	Not having shed tears.
milkless	Without milk.
juiceless	Without juice or sap.
dry-shod	With one's footwear dry, not in or under water, usually referring to walking on ground which at another time, or usually, is covered with deep water.
unstimulating	That does not stimulate
unemotional	Showing little or no feeling.
unexciting	Not exciting.
unproductive	Not productive; useless; fruitless.
sober	Not drunk; not intoxicated.
unsweet	Not sweet.
teetotal	Abstinent from alcohol; never drinking alcohol.
ironical	Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.
ironic	(of a situation) Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.
withered	Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
shrivelled	Collapsed in size.
shriveled	Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.