Synonyms of the word

dry

• adj. Free from or lacking moisture.
• adj. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (Petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
• adj. (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
• adj. (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquid…
• adj. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
• adj. (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
• adj. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly.
• adj. (sciences, somewhat pejorative) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
• n. (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
• n. (especially Australia, with "the") The dry season.
• n. (Australia) An area of waterless country.
• v. (intransitive) To lose moisture.
• v. (transitive) To remove moisture from.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be thirsty.

adust

• adj. (medicine, historical, usually postpositive) Describing a bodily humour which is abnormally dark or over-concentrated,…
• adj. (now rare) Burnt or having a scorched color.

air-dry

• adj. Free of moisture to the degree possible by exposure to air; "naturally" dried.
• v. To dry by exposure to the air.

alcoholic

• n. A person addicted to alcohol.
• n. One who abuses alcohol.
• adj. Of or pertaining to alcohol.
• adj. Having more than a trace amount of alcohol in its contents.
• adj. Of, pertaining to, or affected by alcoholism.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

arid

• adj. Very dry.
• adj. Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
• adj. Devoid of value.

baked

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bake.
• adj. That has been cooked by baking.
• adj. (slang) High on marijuana.

bone-dry

• adj. (idiomatic) totally dry; without moisture.

brut

• adj. (of champagne) very dry, and not sweet.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

crusader

• n. A person engaged in a crusade.

desiccated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of desiccate.
• adj. dried.

dried

• adj. Without water or moisture, said of something that has previously been wet or moist; resulting from the…
• adj. Usually of foods: cured, preserved by drying.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of dry.

dry-eyed

• adj. Not having shed tears.
• adj. (by extension) Not made sad (by something); emotionally unaffected.

dry-shod

• adv. without wetting's one's shoes or feet.
• adj. without wetting's one's shoes or feet.

humorous

• adj. Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
• adj. Showing humor; witty, jocular.
• adj. (obsolete) Damp or watery.
• adj. (obsolete) Dependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.

humourous

• adj. (chiefly Britain, uncommon, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of humorous.

ironic

• adj. Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.
• adj. Given to the use of irony; sarcastic.

ironical

• adj. Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.
• adj. Given to the use of irony; sarcastic.
• adj. (obsolete) Feigning ignorance; simulating lack of instruction or knowledge; exhibiting Socratic irony.

juiceless

• adj. Without juice or sap.
• adj. Dry, dull; lacking vivacity or spirit.

meliorist

• n. A proponent of meliorism.
• adj. Of or relating to meliorism.
• adj. Supporting the principles of meliorism.

milkless

• adj. Without milk.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

nonsweet

• adj. Not having a sweet taste.

parched

• adj. Dry.
• adj. Thirsty.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of parch.

plain

• adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
• adj. Simple.
• adj. Obvious.
• adj. Open.
• adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
• adv. (colloquial) Simply.
• n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
• n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
• n. A battlefield.
• n. (obsolete) A plane.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

prohibitionist

• n. A person who agrees with, or advocates a prohibition; especially with the outlawing of the sale of alcoholic…

rainless

• adj. Without rain.

reformer

• n. One who reforms, or who works for reform.
• n. (historical) One who was involved in the Reformation.
• n. (chemical engineering, fuel cells) A device which converts hydrocarbons into a hydrogen-rich mixture of…
• n. (chemical engineering, petrochemistry) A device used to convert petroleum refinery naphthas, typically…

reformist

• adj. Advocating reform of an institution or body.
• adj. Specifically, advocating reform and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary…
• n. One who advocates reform (of an institution).
• n. Specifically, one who advocates reform of society and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed…
• n. (dated, 17th C.) An advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer.
• n. (dated, 18th century) An advocate or supporter of political reform in the United Kingdom. (Common from…
• n. A member of a reformed religious denomination.

scorched

• adj. Dried, damaged or burnt by exposure to sunlight or heat.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of scorch.

sear

• adj. Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.
• v. To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument.
• v. To wither; to dry up.
• v. (figuratively) To mark permanently, as if by burning.
• n. A scar produced by searing.
• n. Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.

sec

• n. (colloquial) Second, ¹⁄₆₀ of a minute.
• n. (colloquial) Abbreviation of second. (A short indeterminate period of time.).

semiarid

• adj. Somewhat arid, receiving little rainfall but more than an arid area would. Typically defined as 25 to…

sere

• adj. Without moisture.
• n. An intermediate stage in an ecosystem prior to advancing to the point of being a climax community.
• adj. (now rare, archaic, dialectal) Set apart; separate; individual; different; diverse; several; many.
• n. (obsolete) Claw; talon.

shriveled

• adj. Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
• adj. Collapsed in size.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of shrivel.

shrivelled

• adj. Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
• adj. Collapsed in size.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of shrivel.

sober

• adj. not drunk; not intoxicated.
• adj. not given to excessive drinking of alcohol.
• adj. moderate; realistic; serious; not playful; not passionate; cool; self-controlled.
• adj. dull; not bright or colorful.
• adj. subdued; solemn; grave.
• v. (often with up) To make or become sober.
• v. (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication.

solid

• adj. An item that can be grabbed, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid or a gas.
• adj. Large, massive.
• adj. Lacking holes or hollows; as solid gold, solid chocolate.
• adj. Strong or unyielding.
• adj. (slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
• adj. Hearty; filling.
• adj. Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
• adj. Sound; not weakly.
• adj. (typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
• adj. (printing, dated) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
• adj. (US, politics, slang) United; without division; unanimous.
• adj. Of a single color throughout.
• adj. (dated) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.
• n. (chemistry) A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need…
• n. (geometry) A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
• n. (informal) A favor.
• n. An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.
• n. (in the plural) Food which is not liquid-based.
• adv. Solidly.
• adv. (not comparable, typography) Without spaces or hyphens.

sour

• adj. Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
• adj. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
• adj. Tasting or smelling rancid.
• adj. Peevish or bad-tempered.
• adj. (of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
• adj. (of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
• adj. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
• adj. (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
• n. The sensation of a sour taste.
• n. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
• n. (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
• n. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
• v. (transitive) To make sour.
• v. (intransitive) To become sour.
• v. (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
• v. (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
• v. (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
• v. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.

sugarless

• adj. Containing no refined sugar as an ingredient.

sunbaked

• v. simple past tense and past participle of sunbake.
• adj. Baked by the heat of the sun.

tearless

• adj. Without tears.

teetotal

• adj. Abstinent from alcohol, never drinking alcohol.
• adj. Opposed to the drinking of alcohol.
• adj. Total.
• n. One who abstains from drinking alcohol.

thirsty

• adj. Needing to drink.
• adj. Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink.
• adj. Craving something.

unemotional

• adj. Showing little or no feeling.
• adj. Reasoned and objective, involving reason or intellect rather than feelings.

unexciting

• adj. Not exciting.

unproductive

• adj. Not productive; useless; fruitless.

unstimulating

• adj. That does not stimulate.

unsweet

• adj. Not sweet.

waterless

• adj. Dry, arid, lacking water.
• adj. Not requiring water.

withered

• adj. Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wither.

wry

• adj. Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
• adj. Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic.
• adj. Twisted, bent, crooked.
• adj. Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To turn (away); to swerve or deviate.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To divert; to cause to turn away.
• v. (transitive) To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cover; clothe; cover up; cloak; hide.