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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or woody plants: an arid climate.
  2. adj. Lacking interest or feeling; lifeless and dull: a technically perfect but arid musical performance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Dry; without moisture; parched with heat; hence, figuratively, uninteresting, lifeless, dull, pithless, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Very dry.
  2. adj. Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
  3. adj. Devoid of value.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. lacking sufficient water or rainfall
  2. adj. lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless.

Etymologies

  1. Latin āridus, from ārēre, to be dry; see as- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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