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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. lacking sufficient water or rainfall;
- Example: "an arid climate"
- Example: "a waterless well"
- Example: "miles of waterless country to cross"
[syn: arid, waterless]

2. lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless;
- Example: "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"
- Example: "a desiccate romance"
- Example: "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
[syn: arid, desiccate, desiccated]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

arid
    adj 1: lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate";
           "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"
           [syn: arid, waterless]
    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: arid, desiccate,
       desiccated]