arid

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
The land we are traveling through is semi-arid, average rainfall is 12 inches per year.

View all »
Definitions (6)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

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

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (1)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

 

Tags

arid hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 158 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

treeless ·  barren ·  desolate ·  mountainous ·  uninhabited ·  inhospitable ·  fertile ·  sterile ·  trackless ·  rugged ·  swampy ·  northern
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Latin āridus, from ārēre, to be dry; see as- in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Latin aridus, dry, from arere, be dry.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/ˈærɪd/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a week.

Recently looked up

imperialism · search · pruritus · planer · sufficiency

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

fattoria · Wenn du Wachsmasken magst: Max macht Wachsmasken. · supercalifragilistichespiralidoso · Wenn Lloyds Leute heute läuten, läuten Lloyds Leute heute laut. · telofy