Synonyms for arid
ˈær ɪdarid

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1. arid

   Synonyms:
   dry, parched, sterile, unproductive

   Antonyms:
   moist, dewy, watered, fertile, luxuriant, exuberant, verdant, blooming, productive

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1. arid, waterlessadjective

   lacking sufficient water or rainfall

   "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"

   Synonyms:
   desiccated, waterless, desiccate

   Antonyms:
   lively, wet

2. arid, desiccate, desiccatedadjective

   lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless

   "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo

   Synonyms:
   desiccated, waterless, dried-out, desiccate, dehydrated, dried

   Antonyms:
   wet, lively

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1. aridadjective

   Synonyms:
   dry, dried up, parched with heat

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1. aridadjective

   Synonyms:
   dry, barren, unproductive, parched, sterile, uninteresting, dull, unsuggestive

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1. List of paraphrases for "arid":

   dry, drought, barren, dryland, semi-arid, aridity

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1. Jonathan Loar:

   One reason is that Gandharan scrolls, like the one at the Library of Congress, were typically buried in terra cotta jars and interred in a stupa, a dome-shaped structure often containing Buddhist texts or relics, another reason is that the relatively high, arid climate of the Gandharan region helps preserve materials like manuscripts on birch bark.

2. Anthon St Maarten:

   We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

3. President Ramaphosa:

   The impact of apartheid on black families was devastating. In my own family it happened twice, where land was taken, we were moved from where my parents had grown up owning land, working the land, they were moved and dropped into an arid place with no compensation whatsoever, as it is now, the poverty that we have in South Africa, in part, has been given rise to by people not having assets.

4. Harrison Randriarimanana:

   In my personal opinion, the south is a difficult region. It's a semi-arid area, which is difficult to develop.

5. Jim Green:

   Mars is not the dry, arid planet that we thought of in the past. Under certain circumstances, liquid water has been found on Mars.