dry
adjective
[ drʌɪ ]
• free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist.
• "the jacket kept me warm and dry"
Similar:
parched,
dried,
withered,
shrivelled,
wilted,
wizened,
crisp,
crispy,
brittle,
dehydrated,
desiccated,
sun-baked,
sapless,
juiceless,
hard,
hardened,
dried out,
stale,
old,
past its best,
past its sell-by date,
off,
• (of information, writing, etc.) dully factual.
• "the dry facts of the matter"
Similar:
bare,
simple,
basic,
fundamental,
stark,
naked,
bald,
cold,
hard,
straightforward,
unadorned,
unembellished,
dull,
uninteresting,
boring,
unexciting,
tedious,
tiresome,
wearisome,
dreary,
monotonous,
dry as dust,
arid,
unimaginative,
sterile,
flat,
bland,
insipid,
lacklustre,
stodgy,
colourless,
lifeless,
prosaic,
run-of-the-mill,
humdrum,
mundane,
commonplace,
workaday,
quotidian,
routine,
vapid,
stiff,
leaden,
wooden,
deadly,
samey,
dreich,
• (of a joke or sense of humour) subtle and expressed in a matter-of-fact way.
• "he delighted his friends with a dry, covert sense of humour"
Similar:
wry,
subtle,
low-key,
laconic,
sly,
sharp,
deadpan,
straight-faced,
poker-faced,
ironic,
sardonic,
sarcastic,
cynical,
mordant,
biting,
satirical,
mocking,
scoffing,
droll,
waggish,
sarky,
• prohibiting the sale or consumption of alcoholic drink.
• "the country is strictly dry, in accordance with Islamic law"
• (of an alcoholic drink) not sweet.
• "a dry, medium-bodied red wine"
• relating to political ‘dries’; rigidly monetarist.
Opposite:
wet,
left-wing,
dry
verb
• become dry.
• "allow 24 hours for the paint to dry"
• forget one's lines.
• "a colleague of mine once dried in the middle of a scene"
dry
noun
• the process or an instance of drying.
• a dry or covered place.
• a Conservative politician (especially in the 1980s) in favour of strict monetarist policies.
• a person in favour of the prohibition of alcohol.
• "evangelical dries had seen to it that the nearest bottle of whiskey was miles away"
Origin:
Old English drȳge (adjective), drȳgan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Middle Low German dröge, Dutch droog, and German trocken .
