Arid

Definition: Arid

Arid

Adjective

1. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well; "miles of waterless country to cross".

2. Lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata";l "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "arid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Arid \Ar"id\, adjective. [Latin expression aridus, from arere to be dry: compare to the French expression aride.]. (Websters 1913)

Agriculture

Geography

Hydrologic

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Arid

Dryness

Adjective: dry, anhydrous, arid; adust, arescent; dried. Verb: undamped; juiceless, sapless; sear; husky; rainless, without rain, fine; dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit.

Unproductiveness

Adjective: unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund; sine prole; fallow; teemless, issueless, fruitless; unprofitable; (useless); null and void, of no effect.

Weariness

Adjective: wearying; Verb: wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific, somniferous.

Crosswords: Arid

Romanian (arid, barren, dead, sterile, unproductive).

Absolute: Arid (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Ariaal Pastoralists of Kenya: Surviving Drought and Development in Africa's Arid Lands (reference)

• Arid Shrubland Plants of Western Australia (reference)

• Desert Ecology: An Introduction to Life in the Arid Southwest (reference)

• Ecophysiology of Economic Plants in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (Adaptations of Desert Organisms) (reference)

• Fly Fishing: Desert & High Arid Lakes (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Arid Lands Newsletter (reference)

• Journal Of Arid Environments (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The Edrengiyn Nuruu forms a transition zone between the Mongolian steppes to the north and the arid deserts of northern China to the south. Credit: NASA.

This scar on an arid landscape is the dry riverbed of the Ghadamis River in the Tinrhert Hamada Mountains near Ghadamis, Libya. Credit: NASA.

The MacDonnell Ranges are a band of mountains spanning Australia's arid interior. Only a portion of the Ranges can be seen in this image. Credit: NASA.

Water flows through arid desert near Phoenix, AZ. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Watering yard in arid Clark County, NV. Credit: Lynn Betts.

View of an arid country, possibly Brazil. Credit: Library of Congress.

Arid land. Weld County, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.

Barbed wire fence on arid land. Weld County, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Deschutes River, like many of the other rivers in the arid portion of central Oregon, is at the bottom of a steep canyon. Stock trails have been built by Resettlement Administration workers to make the water available to cattle. Credit: Library of Congress.

The sun sets on a broken wagon wheel, symbolic of the vain efforts to farm on the dry arid land of central Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Evening had fallen when he woke and the sand and arid grasses of his bed glowed no longer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Traditionally, irrigation in Argentina has supported intensive agriculture in arid provinces where approximately 900,000 hectares are dedicated to the cultivation of fruits, vegetables and fodder. (references)

The use of this agricultural land ranges from crop production and mixed farming in winter rainfall and high summer rainfall years, to cattle ranching in the bushveld and sheep farming in arid areas. (references)

Although the Argentine Pampas - one of the farmlands with the richest topsoil on the planet - has abundant rainfall, irrigation has been used extensively in Argentina for over a century in the arid regions of the Western part of the country, by the Andes mountain chain. (references)

Economic History

Oman

Terrain: Mountains, plains, and arid plateau. (references)

Mali

Climate: Semitropical in the south; arid in the north. (references)

Oman

Water saving technologies for agriculture also offers good potential in arid Oman. (references)

Minorities

Senegal

Casamance is substantially less arid, less Islamic, and less Wolof than the rest of the country. (references)

Botswana

Some nonethnic-Tswana groups are more numerous than the Tswana in some rural areas of the country: The Kalanga and Lozi in areas of the north; the Bayei and Herero in the Okavango Delta region; and the Baswara in the arid west. (references)

Political Economy

OMAN

The Sultanate of Oman is a nation of 2.4 million people (including as many as 624,000 expatriates) living in the arid mountains and desert plains of the southeastern Arabian Peninsula. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "arid": arid land. Additional references.

Beginning with "arid": arid-loving.

Ending with "arid": semi-arid.

Albanian

pa interes (disinterested, incurious, lacklustre), jo interesant, i thatë (blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مجدب (barren, desert, dry, infertile, sterile, sterilized, unfruitful, waste), ‏قاحل (barren, desert, dry, infertile, waste), ‏غير مشوق أو ممتع, ‏جاف (becoming dry, boorish, brittle, churlish, crude, curt, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dry, dryish, gross, harsh, objectionable, rough, surly, unceremonious, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, wild). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сух (academic, academical, anhydrous, aseptic, bald, brut, chaffy, chippy, dried, droughty, dry, fleshless, gaunt, hacking, lean, liny, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosy, rainless, sapless, sec, spare, tearless, undamped, uninspired), скучен (dead alive, drear, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, heartbreaking, heavy, humdrum, insipid, jejune, jogtrot, long, long winded, long-spun, moldy, monotonous, mouldy, mousey, plodding, pokey, ponderous, prosaic, prosy, slow, soggy, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, uninspired, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, weariful, wearisome), безплоден (abortive, fruitless, infertile, still-born, trashy, unfruitful, vain). (various references)

Chinese 

干旱, 乾燥 (dry, dull), 乾旱 (drought, dry). (various references)

Czech

suchopárný (dry), suchý (bald, bare, dead, desiccated, droughty, dry, hacking, matter of fact, pedestrian, sear, sere, torrid, wry). (various references)

Danish

arid, regnfattig, gold (barren, infertile, sterile). (various references)

Dutch

aride. (various references)

Farsi 

لم یزرع (Barren, Wasteland), خالی (Destitute, Empty, Indigent, Leer, Mere, Sunken, Unoccupied, Vacant, Vacuous, Void), خشک (Abstract, Husky, Jejune, Mealy, Sec, Thirsty), بیمزه (Colourless, Tame, Vapid), بیروح (Exanimate, Inert, Meek, Pedestrian, Tame, Vapid), بی لطافت (Awkward, Jejune), بایر (Sterile). (various references)

Finnish

kuiva (dry). (various references)

French

aride. (various references)

German

trocken (barren, bookish, dead pan, drily, dry, dry-cell, dryly, dusty, humorless, humorlessly, humourless, humourlessly, jejune, stale, uninspiring, wry), dürr (aridly, barren, dry, lank, scraggy, scrawny, seares, searly, skinny, withered). (various references)

Greek 

ξηρόσ (droughty, dry, seared, sere, terse), ξερόσ (curt, dry), αυχμηρός ή ξηρός. (various references)

Hebrew 

חרב (cold steel, desolate, destroyed, knife, parched, ruined, steel, sword, waste), צחיח (barren, dry, infertile, parched, torrid, waste). (various references)

Hungarian

száraz (anhydrous, bald, bare, cut and dried, droughty, dry, dryasdust, dryish, fine, husky, lean, prosaic, prosy, sear, sec, sere, stale, undamped). (various references)

Indonesian

membosankan (bore, boring, drab, monotonous, tedious), kering (droughty, dry), gersang (barren, coarse, dry). (various references)

Italian

secco (dried, dry, offhand, offhanded, sharp, short, skinny, thin, withered), arido (barren, chippy, dry, gaunt). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

乾燥 (dehydrated, dry, insipid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

か�"そう (contemplation, dehydrated, dry, dry grass, hay, hearty send-off, impressions, insipid, meditation, physiognomy, running the race, staying the course, thoughts). (various references)

Korean 

건조한 (dry, Waterless). (various references)

Manx

spongit (burnt up, burnt up as fowl, crisp, parched, roasted, shrivelled), lhome (bald, bare, fleshless, leafless, meagre, naked, neat, nude, scraggy, severe, spare), chirrym (dry, dry-bulb, prohibitionist, sapless, waterless). (various references)

Pig Latin

ariday

Portuguese

árido (barren, chaffy, devastated, dry, dry cleaning, dutch, hungry, jejune, sterile, thirsty, waste). (various references)

Romanian

arid (barren, dead, sterile, unproductive), uscat (adust, arenaceous, barren, continent, crusty, dry, earth, fleshless, hungry, husky, land, main, mainland, meager, meagre, parched, sear, sere, shore, shrunken, slack, stale, thirsty, well-seasoned, wizened), sterp (arenaceous, bare, barren, dead, desolate, hungry, infructuous, jejune, lean, sterile), steril (addle, barren, fruitless, futile, infructuous, sterile, unfruitful, useless, vain), secetos (drought-afflicted, droughty, dry), neinteresant (dry, dull, dusty, flat, jejune, languorous, uneventful). (various references)

Russian 

сухой (brut, dried, droughty, dry, dryasdust, husky, matter of fact, matter-of-fact, sec, sere). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

suv (dried, droughty, dry, lank, sec), nezanimljiv (uninteresting), bezvodan (anhydrous). (various references)

Spanish

árido (barren, dreary, dry, jejune, unfruitful). (various references)

Swedish

torr (clean, droughty, dry, dryness, jejune, parched, sapless, torrid), ofruktbar (barren, infertile, jejune, otiose, unfertile, unfruitful, unproductive, unprofitable). (various references)

Thai

แห้ง (dry, sere), น่าเบื่อ (banal, boring, dull, humdrum, jejune, tasteless, tired). (various references)

Turkish

yavan (bald, crude, cut and dried, dry, frail, insipid, jaded, jejune, meager, meagre, milk and water, platitudinous, prosaic, prose, prosy, tasteless, uninspired, vapid, watery), tatsız (chippy, disagreeable, distasteful, dull, dusty, flat, flavorless, flavourless, frail, insipid, milk and water, objectionable, queasy, savorless, savourless, sticky, tame, tasteless, ugly, unamusing, uncomfortable, uncongenial, ungracious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsweetened, unwelcome, vapid, watery), sıkıcı (bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), kuru (dried, dry, drying, rate, sapless, scarious), kurak (droughty, dry, rainless, thirsty), çorak (barren, desert, gaunt, infertile, jejune, poor, waterless). (various references)

Turkmen 

gurak. (various references)

Ukrainian

сухий (brut, chilly, drained, dried, dry, dryasdust, dusty, saharan, saharian, sear, sere, withered), нудний (barren, dead alive, depressing, heartbreaking, humdrum, insipid, irksome, long winded, matter of fact, monotonous, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, soggy, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tedious, weariful, wearying, workaday), нецікавий (incurious, tame, uninteresting), арідний, безводний (anhydrous, waterless), безплідний (abortive, barren, effete, heartless, hungry, nonbearing, otiose, sterile). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô vị (banal, drily, dry, dryasdust, dryly, dusty, insipid, milk and water, platitudinarian, platitudinous, savourless, tame, tasteless, unsavoury, watery). (various references)

Welsh

sych (dry), gwyw (faded, sear, withered), crin (dry, sear, withered), cras (dry, harsh, parched). (various references)

exaresco, inaquosa, inaquoso, sitiens, sitiensque, sitientem, sitientes, sitienti, sitientibus. (various references)

jangala-s. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "arid": arider, aridest, aridities, aridity, aridly, aridness, aridnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "arid": acarid, ascarid, hyperarid, semiarid, sparid, subarid. (additional references)

Words containing "arid": acaridan, acaridans, acarids, ascarides, ascarids, cantharides, cantharidin, cantharidins, disaccharidase, disaccharidases, disaccharide, disaccharides, lipopolysaccharide, lipopolysaccharides, monosaccharide, monosaccharides, mucopolysaccharide, mucopolysaccharides, oligosaccharide, oligosaccharides, polysaccharide, polysaccharides, saccharide, saccharides, semiaridities, semiaridity, sparids, trisaccharide, trisaccharides. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Arid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abid, adid, adir, aeid, Aerad, afid, afrdid, Afridi, agid, agrif, ahid, aibd, aidd, aidv, airaid, airc, aird, airt, aiud, akid, alid, Alrad, alred, alric, anid, apid, apri, arad, Arada, Arado, araid, arat, Arbi, arbit, ardi, Ardu, ared, arede, Areeda, areic, Arend, arev, arex, ari, ariad, arib, Aric, aride, aridi, arids, aridy, aridz, arie, aried, arif, arig, Arik, Arild, arim, ario, ariq, aris, arit, arith, ariu, Arix, ariz, Arlinda, arod, arood, Arpi, Arrad, arri, arric, arrid, arris, Arruda, arudy, Arur, arvid, Arvids, aryd, Asid, atid, atrid, atrit, auid, aurit, awrit, axid, ayid, azid, Azrad, azrid, darid, Eridu, garid, harid, irid, irit, jarid, kardi, lrid, Marwidk, orid, orrid, pardi, parid, raidh, raiq, Sarid, srid, tarid, urid, varix, wrid. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: raid.

-1 letter: aid, air, rad, ria, rid.

-2 letters: ad, ai, ar, id.

+1 letter: acrid, aider, aired, aroid, braid, caird, dairy, daric, deair, diary, dinar, drail, drain, irade, laird, liard, lidar, nadir, padri, pardi, rabid, radii, radio, radix, raids, ranid, rapid, redia, triad, yaird.

+2 letters: abider, acarid, admire, adrift, adroit, aeried, afraid, aiders, airted, aldrin, aramid, arider, aridly, ariled, aroids, bardic, braids, briard, bridal, cairds, cardia, caried, chadri, daiker, darics, daring, darkie, deairs, dearie, denari, derail, dialer, diaper, diapir, dinars, dirham, disarm, disbar, drails, drains, durian, faired, gradin, gravid, hairdo, haired, hydria, inroad, inward, irades, izzard, lairds, laired, liards, lidars, lizard, midair, myriad, nadirs, ordain, paired, pardie, qindar, radial, radian, radios, radish, radium, radius, raided, raider, railed, rained, raised, rancid, ranids, rapids, rediae, redial, redias, relaid, repaid, resaid, ribald, riband, ritard, roadie, shaird, sirdar, sparid, tirade, triads, uredia, varied, visard, vizard, waired, wizard, yairds.

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