What is another word for dry?
978 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ d_ɹ_ˈaɪ], [ dɹˈa͡ɪ], [ dɹˈaɪ]Table of Contents
Similar words for dry:- absorbent (adjective)
- acid (adjective)
- acidulous (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- anhydrous (adjective)
- arid (adjective)
- ascetic (adjective)
- barren (adjective)
- boring, uninteresting (adjective)
- drab (adjective)
- dried (adjective)
- dry (adjective)
- dull (adjective)
- dull, uninteresting (adjective)
- empty (adjective)
- exhausted (adjective)
- facetious (adjective)
- fair (adjective)
- grating (adjective)
- hoarse (adjective)
- pedantic (adjective)
- ponderous (adjective)
- powdery (adjective)
- prosaic (adjective)
- raucous (adjective)
- roiled (adjective)
- rough (adjective)
- rough-and-tumble (adjective)
- sarcastic, sharp-tongued (adjective)
- scratchy (adjective)
- sere (adjective)
- severe (adjective)
- shrunken (adjective)
- sober (adjective)
- sour (adjective)
- stale (adjective)
- sterile (adjective)
- stoic/stoical (adjective)
- stolid (adjective)
- tart (adjective)
- tedious (adjective)
- tongue-in-cheek (adjective)
- torrid (adjective)
- uncreative (adjective)
- unembellished (adjective)
- unimaginative (adjective)
- uninteresting (adjective)
- unostentatious (adjective)
- unprofitable (adjective)
- weariful (adjective)
- witty (adjective)
- wry (adjective)
- abstainer (noun)
- adust (noun)
- alcoholic (noun)
- arid (noun)
- baked (noun)
- brut (noun)
- desiccated (noun)
- dried-out (noun)
- dried-up (noun)
- dry (noun)
- dry up (noun)
- immature (noun)
- coagulate (verb)
- congeal (verb)
- cure (verb)
- dehydrate (verb)
- desiccate (verb)
- drain (verb)
- dry (verb)
- exhaust (verb)
- harden (verb)
- solidify (verb)
- take moisture out of (verb)
- temper (verb)
- toast (verb)
- wipe (verb)
- wither (verb)
- other synonyms
- bone dry
- clot
- congeal
- fall
- harden
- teetotaler
Definition for Dry:
Synonyms for Dry:
adj.
•absorbent (adjective) •acid (adjective) •acidulous (adjective) •all (adjective)- dry.
- franciscan,
- stark,
- celibate,
- trappist,
- parsimonious,
- teetotaling,
- monastic,
- penitential,
- ascetic,
- repentant,
- hermit-like,
- miserly,
- stoic,
- spartan,
- severe,
- austere,
- lenten,
- abstemious.
- de-sert,
- in fecund,
- most unbearing,
- un-cultivable,
- un fruitful,
- in-fertile,
- more uncultivable,
- waste,
- un-productive,
- de-solate,
- most uncultivable,
- un-bearing,
- un fertile,
- un-fertile,
- more unfertile,
- in-fecund,
- wastest,
- un-fruitful,
- un cultivable,
- un bearing,
- most unfertile,
- more infecund,
- most infecund,
- in fertile,
- more unbearing,
- de sert,
- impotent,
- un productive,
- de solate.
- dull.
- most subfuse,
- more zero,
- most lusterless,
- un-changing,
- sub-fuse,
- more lusterless,
- most zero,
- most characterless,
- un changing,
- sub fuse,
- more characterless,
- more subfuse.
- more preserved,
- most desiccated,
- most dehydrated,
- pre served,
- most preserved,
- more desiccated,
- pre-served,
- more dehydrated.
- ho hum,
- big yawn,
- longwinded,
- repetitive,
- usual thing,
- prosy,
- wornout,
- out-of-date,
- oft-repeated,
- repetitious,
- out of date,
- uninspiring,
- stocker,
- run of the mill.
- wearisome,
- trite,
- monotonous,
- bromidic,
- inelaborate,
- blah,
- phlegmatic,
- apathetic,
- tiresome,
- boring,
- Weariful,
- insipid,
- dreary,
- matter-of-fact.
- most despoiled,
- un filled,
- more despoiled,
- more unfurnished,
- un-occupied,
- most evacuated,
- more evacuated,
- unfilled,
- un-filled,
- de-spoiled,
- de spoiled,
- wanting,
- un furnished,
- un-inhabited,
- un inhabited,
- de void,
- most unfurnished,
- un-furnished,
- most vacated,
- more vacated,
- un occupied,
- de-void.
- at end,
- most consumed,
- washed-out,
- more consumed,
- ex-pended,
- washedout,
- most expended,
- more expended,
- most squandered,
- ex pended,
- more squandered.
- more capering,
- most capering,
- more joshing,
- joking,
- most jesting,
- sportive,
- playful,
- most jocose,
- funnier,
- in-decorous,
- pulling one leg,
- pulling leg,
- more ironic,
- irreverent,
- most comic,
- in decorous,
- farcical,
- most sportive,
- facetious,
- more wisecracking,
- more jesting,
- most wisecracking,
- more punning,
- laughable,
- pulling ones leg,
- more ridiculous,
- flippest,
- ludicrous,
- most joshing,
- most punning,
- witty.
- Undarkened,
- most sunshiny,
- more smiling,
- more undarkened,
- most smiling,
- un-threatening,
- un clouded,
- FAIRER,
- un darkened,
- un-clouded,
- unthreatening,
- more unthreatening,
- most undarkened,
- most unthreatening,
- un threatening,
- more sunshiny,
- un-darkened.
- dis-agreeable,
- dis sonant,
- dis agreeable,
- dis pleasing,
- harshsounding,
- most harshsounding,
- more harsh sounding,
- more harshsounding,
- dis-sonant,
- most harsh-sounding,
- most stridulent,
- more stridulous,
- more stridulent,
- un pleasant,
- dis-pleasing,
- more harsh-sounding,
- most stridulous,
- un-pleasant,
- most harsh sounding,
- harsh sounding.
- most gravelly,
- in distinct,
- more gravelly,
- un-even,
- more growling,
- more squawking,
- most squawking,
- more stertorous,
- breathiest,
- in-distinct,
- breathier,
- croupiest,
- un even,
- most stertorous,
- most growling,
- stertorous.
- most nit picking,
- more nit picking,
- more overnice,
- over nice,
- more schoolish,
- most donnish,
- most overnice,
- most hairsplitting,
- overnice,
- more nit-picking,
- more donnish,
- more hairsplitting,
- nit picking,
- most schoolish,
- most nit-picking,
- doctrinaire.
- most nowhere,
- gardenvariety,
- more workaday,
- yawnest,
- un eventful,
- diddlier,
- most workaday,
- more nowhere,
- un-eventful,
- prosest,
- yawner,
- diddliest.
- most atonal,
- most earpiercing,
- more atonal,
- more earpiercing,
- un musical,
- most braying,
- more braying,
- unharmonious,
- ear piercing,
- in-harmonious,
- earpiercing,
- unmusical,
- un harmonious,
- more ear-piercing,
- un-harmonious,
- in harmonious,
- most ear piercing,
- more ear piercing,
- most ear-piercing,
- most absonant,
- un-musical,
- more absonant.
- biting,
- subtle,
- arcane,
- restrained,
- deadpan,
- low-key,
- cynical,
- droll,
- sardonic,
- harsh,
- salty,
- cutting,
- keen,
- sly,
- sharp,
- satirical,
- caustic,
- acerbic.
- more caterwauling,
- most asperous,
- more unlevel,
- more asperous,
- most out of key,
- most jangling,
- most clashing,
- more out of tune,
- dis agreeing,
- most out-of-tune,
- more clashing,
- more jangling,
- un level,
- more out-of-tune,
- most unlevel,
- most creaking,
- un relenting,
- most out of tune,
- more screeching,
- most screeching,
- un melodious,
- out of key,
- off key,
- most tuneless,
- offkey,
- more unmelodious,
- more out-of-key,
- in-compatible,
- un-melodious,
- most caterwauling,
- more out of key,
- in compatible,
- most unmelodious,
- more tuneless,
- un-level,
- dis-agreeing,
- more creaking,
- most out-of-key.
- blunt,
- lean,
- inflexible,
- basic,
- chilly,
- dour,
- rigid,
- demanding,
- authoritarian,
- puritanical,
- unbending,
- obdurate,
- censorious,
- hidebound,
- precise,
- relentless,
- prudish,
- exacting,
- icy,
- draconian,
- stiff-necked,
- acrimonious,
- grim,
- brisk,
- cool,
- oppressive,
- correct,
- intense,
- raw,
- obstinate,
- meticulous,
- abrupt,
- fundamental,
- critical,
- spare,
- crisp,
- brusque,
- uncompromising,
- gruff,
- disciplined,
- rigorous,
- bleak,
- strict,
- strait-laced,
- short,
- piquant,
- frosty,
- intolerant,
- imperial,
- curt,
- stern,
- stringent,
- acute,
- astringent.
- more diminished,
- more wilted,
- most wilted,
- most contracted,
- most dwindled,
- more contracted,
- more dwindled.
- re eking,
- most zestless,
- stenchiest,
- fusty,
- stenchier,
- more reeking,
- most reeking,
- re-eking,
- more zestless.
- more pasteurized,
- most germ-free,
- more unprolific,
- de contaminated,
- most pasteurized,
- germ free,
- dis-infected,
- most septic,
- more disinfected,
- more germfree,
- un-prolific,
- un-infected,
- more septic,
- anti-septic,
- most germfree,
- more germ-free,
- anti septic,
- un infected,
- sterile,
- most germ free,
- more uninfected,
- un prolific,
- most decontaminated,
- de-contaminated,
- without issue,
- most disinfected,
- more germ free,
- dis infected,
- most uninfected,
- most unprolific,
- more decontaminated.
- most enervating,
- most drudging,
- un-exciting,
- snoozer,
- un exciting,
- long drawn out,
- more enervating,
- snoozest,
- more drudging.
- dime dozen,
- most wellworn,
- more well worn,
- more wellworn,
- most well-worn,
- well worn,
- un romantic,
- well-worn,
- un-imaginative,
- wellworn,
- prosaic,
- most well worn,
- un imaginative,
- un original,
- un-original,
- more well-worn,
- un-romantic.
- de-pressing,
- un enjoyable,
- de pressing,
- most unentertaining,
- more unenjoyable,
- more unentertaining,
- un interesting,
- un-interesting,
- un-enjoyable,
- unentertaining,
- un-entertaining,
- un entertaining,
- most unenjoyable.
- inter-minable,
- drearest,
- in-terminable,
- more cloying,
- un varied,
- draggest,
- most unvaried,
- in terminable,
- un-varied,
- stereo typed,
- bombest,
- drearer.
n.
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- restricted,
- prohibited,
- trivial,
- straight.
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- bursting,
- raspy,
- bowel movement,
- evacuate,
- constipation,
- Bedwetting,
- strident,
- jarring,
- Egestion,
- constipated,
- rasping.
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- papery,
- scaly,
- tinder-dry.
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- acetous,
- acerb,
- taste,
- irradiate,
- flash-freeze,
- tangy,
- acid,
- homogenize,
- acidulous,
- dehydration.
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- unvarnished,
- unadorned,
- sort out,
- clean out,
- clear out,
- brush,
- straighten up,
- bald,
- tidy,
- clean,
- pick up,
- simple,
- clean up,
- pick up after.
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- earthbound,
- spiritless,
- lifeless,
- shut up,
- fall silent,
- turn over to,
- hold your tongue,
- colorless,
- flavorless,
- falter,
- clam up,
- uninspired,
- bite your tongue/lip,
- drab,
- keep your mouth shut,
- pedestrian,
- hush,
- aseptic,
- stodgy.
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- dust bowl,
- drought,
- the dry season,
- fail.
- nondrinkers,
- DRYS,
- non-drinker,
- nondrinker,
- water-drinker,
- prohibitionist,
- ascetics,
- one who is on the wagon,
- teetotalist.
- arid.
- brut.
- humourous,
- humorous,
- unemotional,
- ironical,
- scorched,
- dry-shod,
- semiarid,
- tearless,
- wry,
- sear,
- rainless,
- solid,
- sunbaked,
- unexciting,
- unproductive,
- unsweet,
- dry-eyed,
- withered,
- waterless,
- unstimulating,
- teetotal,
- ironic,
- shrivelled,
- shriveled,
- juiceless,
- sec,
- milkless.
v.
•coagulate (verb)- Loppering,
- Loppered,
- jellifies,
- glopping up,
- gelating,
- glops up,
- clabbers,
- glopped up,
- gelated,
- gelates.
- cotton mouthing,
- dries up,
- cotton mouthed,
- de hydrating,
- cotton-mouths,
- de hydrates,
- cotton-mouthing,
- cottonmouthing,
- de-hydrated,
- de hydrate,
- de-hydrate,
- cotton-mouthed,
- de hydrated,
- dries out,
- de-hydrating,
- de-hydrates,
- cotton mouths,
- cotton mouth.
- anhydrates,
- de vitalizing,
- anhydrated,
- de vitalizes,
- anhydrating,
- de vitalize,
- de-vitalized,
- wizens,
- de-vitalizes,
- wizening,
- de-vitalizing,
- de-vitalize,
- de vitalized.
- drunk up,
- with drawing,
- with-drawn,
- de creases,
- bleeding dry,
- drew off,
- de-creasing,
- freed from,
- with draw,
- re duces,
- filtering off,
- ex pending,
- ex pends,
- draws off,
- filters off,
- gulped down,
- with drawn,
- gulps down,
- with draws,
- re-duces,
- de creased,
- bleeds dry,
- ex-pends,
- drinks up,
- drinking up,
- de-crease,
- de crease,
- with-draw,
- getting last drop,
- drank up,
- got last drop,
- gat last drop,
- de-creased,
- with-drew,
- with drew,
- de creasing,
- ex-pending,
- ex pend,
- gotten last drop,
- freeing from,
- uses up,
- with-drawing,
- de-creases,
- ex-pend,
- filtered off,
- re-duce,
- gets last drop,
- bled dry,
- gulping down,
- re duce.
- runs through,
- taking last of,
- takes last of,
- washes up,
- took last of,
- dis-perse,
- washing up,
- dis perse.
Other synonyms:
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- long.
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- dead.
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- pack.
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- pass.
- Caking,
- Caked,
- glob up,
- Gelatinate.
Paraphrases for Dry:
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Equivalence
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Noun, singular or mass
drier.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
dryland, bone-dry, dry-lease.
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Proper noun, singular
dryness.
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Noun, singular or mass
dryness.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
drought-related, kiln-dried, drought, rain-fed, barren, desiccated, rainfed, warm, carbonic, temperature, moist, semi-arid, thirsty, drought-affected, seasoned, deadweight, empty, upland, moisture, drought-prone.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
Wiping.
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Verb, base form
wipe.
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Adjective
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Exclusion
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Adjective
wet.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
arid.
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Proper noun, singular
arid.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Dry:
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adj.
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dull, uninteresting
clear.
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moistureless
untiring, soggy, lively, full, interesting, dripping, moist, damp, soaked, exciting, unused, juicy, humid, watery.
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Other antonyms:
mesmerizing, hospitable, productive, amiable, energizing, fabulous, drowned, outgoing, attractive, captivating, hair-raising, inebriated, moving, communicative, sloughy, wonderful, expansive, kindly, bewitching, invigorating, spellbinding, humourless, enchanting, spectacular, social, entrancing, gaseous, amazing, cordial, clubbable, agreeable, stirring, hydrated, garrulous, amusing, humorless, Overflowed, liquid, swamped, friendly, folksy, gracious, genial, electrifying, provocative, boon, tantalizing, fancy, rip-roaring, wondrous, congenial, eye-opening, astonishing, intoxicated, awesome, submerged, gregarious, entertaining, surprising, squashy, sensational, marvelous, touching, thrilling, animating, tearful, diverting, suspenseful, flooded, inspiring, clubby, breathtaking, unhumorous, inundated, exhilarating, affable, talkative, steaming, alluring, neighborly, nonalcoholic, convivial, enlivening, sloppy, galvanizing, rousing, quaggy, beguiling, sociable, companionable, charming, extroverted, astounding.
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dull, uninteresting
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v.
Dry Sentence Examples:
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You git dry and comfortable before you hold him.
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The last two days have been dry, so that I have been able to get up and down by the house a little.
Homophones for Dry:
- death adder, deary, dory, deodar, death row, drier, derriere, deere, dairy, dodderer, doddery, dour, diarrhoea, dare, draw, dura, doorway, drear, dietary, dewar, drye, dearie, dryer, datura, dray, drew, dead air, didder, dari, dear, durra, drawer, dyer, Dieter, detour, dower, drawee, door, durer, dourah, dowery, doer, dodder, drey, draw away, doura, dreary, dowry, darrow, dither, dior, diary, deter, durio, duty tour, Dr., Diarrhea, deer, dire.
Hypernym for Dry:
v.
