Archbishop Flashcards
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Arid
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adjective adjective: arid 1. (of land or a climate) having little or no rain; too dry or barren to support vegetation. "hot and arid conditions" Similar: dry dried up waterless as dry as a bone moistureless parched scorched baked thirsty dehydrated desiccated barren desert waste desolate infertile nonfertile unfruitful unproductive uncultivatable sterile infecund droughty torrefied Opposite: wet fertile 2. lacking in interest, excitement, or meaning. "his arid years in suburbia" Similar: dreary dull drab dry sterile banal colorless monochrome