Antonyms for arid
ˈær ɪdarid

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1. arid

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

   Synonyms:
   dry, parched, sterile, unproductive

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1. arid, waterlessadjective

   lacking sufficient water or rainfall

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

   Antonyms:
   lively, wet

   Synonyms:
   desiccated, waterless, desiccate

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

   Antonyms:
   wet, lively

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

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1. aridadjective

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

How to use arid in a sentence?

1. Doug Kenney:

   Cortney Brand said. Denver Basin Water is exploring the feasibility of pumping water far under the city, into the massive Denver Basin aquifer system to keep it there until the next dry spell. As Denver Water Resource Engineer Bob Peters points out, in the already arid American West, Drought is always on the horizon. We only get 15 inches of rainfall a year here in Denver Basin, and most of Denver Water comes from the mountain snowpack. That mountain snowpack melts and runs downstream, supplying water for much of the nation including the parched Southwest. When the snowpack fails the effects reach far beyond the region according to Doug Kenney, Director of the Western Water Policy Center at University of Colorado Law School. The California drought has really illustrated to people why drought in the West is important. If you consume vegetables in winter, you're probably getting those from Southern California, so from farm products to general economic health, not only do these things resonate throughout the rest of the country but throughout the rest of the world. A secondary source of water comes from underground aquifers which nature filled over the course of millions of years, and which humans are draining at a massive rate. Even though the aquifer system under the city of Denver Basin covers an area the size of the Connecticut, Peters said, The Denver Basin ground water is non-renewable so if you pump that water it's gone. What we're talking about is taking our renewable water supplies and injecting them into the aquifer to keep the aquifer replenished. With core samples taken every 10 feet down, the bore holes being drilled beneath Denver Basin will provide geologic data about how well the various open bowls in the rock will hold water without losing any to seepage or cracks. Cities like Phoenix, Wichita and San Antonio are already banking water underground and because it doesn't have the same downsides as above-ground reservoirs the method will surely become more common. Reservoirs are really tough to build, politically and financially, Kenney said.

2. Carlo Ratti:

   We think we'll have some ready for commercial sale in the near future, hot and arid climates are perfect for evaporative cooling.

3. 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.

4. Bruno Campello:

   The branch of logic is the husband of all sciences. It is indispensable to rationalize them but alone is arid and does not generate the child that is knowledge.

5. Bonner Cohen:

   This is a man-made disaster, southern California is an arid part of the world where droughts -- even severe droughts -- are commonplace, and knowing this, you’d think the government of California would have included this mathematical certainty in its disaster preparedness planning, but the government has done nothing, not even store rain, as the population has continued to grow.

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