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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
Dullness | Adjective: dull, dull as ditch water; unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust; unfunny, unlively, logy; unimaginative; insulse; dry as dust; prosy, prosing, prosaic; matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless; "weary stale flat and unprofitable". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "DRY AS DUST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Czech | sucharský. (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | rutikuiva. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ydray asay ustday แห้งมาก ((as) dry as dust). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dryasdust. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-r-s-s-t-u-y" | |
-3 letters: dryads, satyrs, strays, sturdy, sudary, sutras, tarsus, tussar. | |
-4 letters: adust, artsy, darts, dauts, drats, drays, dryad, duads, duras, durst, dusts, dusty, dyads, rudds, ruddy, rusts, rusty, sards, satyr, saury, sayst, stars, stays, stray, studs, study, sudds, sudsy, suras, surds, sutra, tardy, trass, trays, truss, tsars, turds, yards, yauds, yurta, yurts. | |
-5 letters: adds, arts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-r-s-s-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: dryasdusts. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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