DRIEST

DRY

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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

driest

superlative form of dry: most dry

Anagrams

• Stride, direst, disert, dister, drites, redist, ridest, stride

Source: Wiktionary


Dri"er, compar., Dri"est, superl.,

Definition: of Dry, a.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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24 December 2024

INTUITIVELY

(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”


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