dry, teetotal
(adjective) practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages; “he’s been dry for ten years”; “no thank you; I happen to be teetotal”
dry
(adjective) lacking warmth or emotional involvement; “a dry greeting”; “a dry reading of the lines”; “a dry critique”
dry
(adjective) having a large proportion of strong liquor; “a very dry martini is almost straight gin”
dry
(adjective) without a mucous or watery discharge; “a dry cough”; “that rare thing in the wintertime; a small child with a dry nose”
dry, ironic, ironical, wry
(adjective) humorously sarcastic or mocking; “dry humor”; “an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely”; “an ironic novel”; “an ironical smile”; “with a wry Scottish wit”
dry
(adjective) (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish; “dry toast”; “dry meat”
dry
(adjective) having no adornment or coloration; “dry facts”; “rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner”
dry
(adjective) unproductive especially of the expected results; “a dry run”; “a mind dry of new ideas”
dry
(adjective) used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones; “dry weight”
dry, juiceless
(adjective) lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless; “a dry book”; “a dry lecture filled with trivial details”; “dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to...life”- John Mason Brown
dry
(adjective) (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; “a dry white burgundy”; “a dry Bordeaux”
dry
(adjective) not shedding tears; “dry sobs”; “with dry eyes”
dry
(adjective) free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; “dry land”; “dry clothes”; “a dry climate”; “dry splintery boards”; “a dry river bed”; “the paint is dry”
dry
(adjective) not producing milk; “a dry cow”
dry
(adjective) opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages; “the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers”; “a dry state”
dry
(adjective) lacking moisture or volatile components; “dry paint”
dryer, drier
(noun) an appliance that removes moisture
desiccant, drying agent, drier, siccative
(noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
In both British and American English, the spelling drier is preferred for the comparative adjective and dryer for the noun.
drier (plural driers)
(chiefly, British, Canadian) Alternative spelling of dryer
drier
comparative form of dry
• Rider, direr, reird, rider
Source: Wiktionary
Dri"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.
2. (Paint.)
Definition: Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.
Dri"er, compar., Dri"est, superl.,
Definition: of Dry, a.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
