Thesaurus:dry

Thesaurus

dry

English

Adjective

Sense: free from liquid or moisture

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.