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DROUGHTY

Definition: DROUGHTY

DROUGHTY

Adjective

1. Dry; thirsty; wanting drink.

2. Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: DROUGHTY

English words defined with "DROUGHTY": Drouthy. (references)

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Modern Translation: DROUGHTY

Language Translations for "DROUGHTY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

сух (academic, academical, anhydrous, arid, aseptic, bald, brut, chaffy, chippy, dried, dry, fleshless, gaunt, hacking, lean, liny, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosy, rainless, sapless, sec, spare, tearless, undamped, uninspired), сушав (thirsty), жаден (ambitious, avid, concupiscent, craving, dry, eager, hungry, thirsty). (various references)

   

Czech

  

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

   

Greek 

  

ξηρόσ (arid, dry, seared, sere, terse). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

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

   

Indonesian

  

kering (arid, dry). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oughtydray

   

Romanian

  

secetos (arid, drought-afflicted, dry). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

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

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

suv (arid, dried, dry, lank, sec). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

torr (arid, clean, dry, dryness, jejune, parched, sapless, torrid), regnfattig (rainless). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

susuz (anhydrous, dehydrated, dry, neat, thirsty, waterless), kurak (arid, dry, rainless, thirsty), kıt (close, constricted, exiguous, few, lean, limited, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, short, skimp, skimpy, stingy). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

спраглий (athirst, thirsty), посушливий (dry, rainless), пересохлий (thirsty). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DROUGHTY

Misspellings

"DROUGHTY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: droughte. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DROUGHTY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-g-h-o-r-t-u-y"

-1 letter: doughty, drought, drouthy, yoghurt.

-2 letters: dought, doughy, drouth, grouty, toughy, trough, yogurt.

-3 letters: dorty, dough, gourd, gouty, grody, grout, guyot, hydro, ought, rough, routh, tough, youth.

-4 letters: dogy, dory, doth, doty, dour, drug, duro, duty, gory, gout, grot, gyro, hour, hurt, orgy, rout, ruth, ryot, thou, thro, thru, thud, thug, tody, tory, tour, trod.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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