adjective

• 1(of land or a climate) having little or no rain; too dry or barren to support vegetation.

  ‘hot and arid conditions’

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  • ‘However, from Karadi to Dandi, the land is arid and the vegetation scrubby.’
  • ‘The arid climate makes the desert the best outdoor setting to keep planes free of corrosion.’
  • ‘The arid land of this autonomous republic supports a nomadic lifestyle.’
  • ‘Ethanol has also been found to contribute to smog in arid climates due to its volatile nature.’
  • ‘The arid climate would easily sap the nutrients and moisture out of them.’
  • ‘From the arid climate of the Sahara to the cold wastes of Siberia, man has learnt how to cope in a wide variety of ways with the effects of the atmosphere.’
  • ‘Next I'll tell you about my travels to the arid lands south-east of the great Kalahari desert.’
  • ‘Intensive irrigation would reshape arid lands and revolutionize rural life.’
  • ‘The inhabitants are dependent on crop farming which is difficult in the arid land.’
  • ‘In the United States, such features show up sporadically in arid lands from New Mexico to Idaho.’
  • ‘In fact, she says, half of the water used in that arid climate is for lawns.’
  • ‘Communities in arid climates often implement strategies for dealing with a lack of rainfall.’
  • ‘Its feedstock is a special variety of rapeseed bred to do well in the arid climate of southern Colorado.’
  • ‘These findings are in contrast to earlier work that indicated an arid climate.’
  • ‘Indeed, dry and warm storage frequently promotes after-ripening of seeds in species of warm and arid climates.’
  • ‘It is an arid climate with a few registered inches of rainfall in a normal year.’
  • ‘After filming he headed for Namibia, wanting to be in a dry hot and arid climate after four months on a boat.’
  • ‘As the sun sets on a bleak plain in the arid Karoo region, the temperature plummets to below freezing.’
  • ‘The arid desert climate gets little rainfall, but the Rio Grande provides water for irrigation.’
  • ‘Hemp grows in virtually all conditions from arid desert to more temperate climes.’

  Synonyms

  dry, dried up, waterless, as dry as a bone, moistureless, parched, scorched, baked, thirsty

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• 2Lacking in interest, excitement, or meaning.

  ‘his arid years in suburbia’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Human stories are more interesting than an arid study of theology.’
  • ‘Yoga classes without this element seem to me arid and dull.’

  Synonyms

  dreary, dull, drab, dry, sterile, banal, colourless, monochrome, unstimulating, uninspiring, flat, boring, uninteresting, monotonous, lifeless, tedious, vapid, jejune, soul-destroying

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