Thesaurus:dry

Thesaurus:dry

THESAURUS

dry

English

Synonyms

• anhydrous

• arid

• bone dry

• droughty (archaic)

• dry

• dry as a bone

• exsuccous

• parched

• sare (Britain, archaic)

• sear

• sere (archaic or literary, poetic)

• waterless

Antonyms

• wet    [WS]

Hyponyms

• chappy (of skin)

• crisp(of weather)

• dehydrated

• desiccated

• dry as a dead dingo's donger (Australia)

• dry as a nun's nasty (Australia)

• secco (of art or music)

• torrid

• windburned (of plants)

Further reading

• “340. dryness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “dry” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.