Thesaurus:dry

English

Synonyms

anhydrous
arid
bone dry
droughty (archaic)
dry
dry as a bone
exsuccous
parched
sare (Britain, archaic)
sear
sere (archaic or literary, poetic)
unmoist
waterless

Antonyms

wet [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

chappy (of skin)
crisp (of weather)
dehydrated
desiccated
dry as a dead dingo's donger (Australia)
dry as a nun's nasty (Australia)
secco (of art or music)
torrid
windburned (of plants)

Further reading

“340. dryness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“dry” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.

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