dry
- adjective
- /draɪ/
- He applied lotion to his dry hands to restore moisture.
- a dry season
- wet and dry
- dry soil
That cake was just dry, dry, dry, dry.
- That cake was just dry, dry, dry, dry.
- So I've been putting the cleanser on a dry face lately.
- Also, you know, cold, dry environments are great for DNA.
- I can't swallow, my mouth gets dry, I can't feel any spit.
- It's either, like, really dry or soaking wet, you know?
- It looks like oh honey you got dry lips girlfriend.
- They probably got a lady out there sitting around with dry, ashy hands.
- But this wouldn't, I feel, play that well on really dry skin because it's quite dry.
- It doesn't look dry, doesn't look like too powdery.
Examples
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The air is dry.
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It doesn't look too horrible on my dry spots on my forehead.
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Your clothes will be dry now.
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Know that I'm left with a dry throat.
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And very dry.
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Very dry.
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Her fingers were busily removing dry leaves and twigs at the last minute.
Academic text (2017) -
Patients describe their cough in a variety of ways, such as dry, chesty, phlegmy, occasional, or persistent.
Academic text (2011) -
After the rain, the ground is finally dry enough to walk on.
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The climate here is very dry, making it hard to grow many plants.
Synonyms
No longer holds water and is very dry, like a riverbed or plant
Completely dry because it has no water left
Completely dry with no moisture
Something that is no longer wet because its water has gone away
Completely dried so it has no water left
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
A very cold solid made from carbon dioxide used to keep things frozen and make white fog
- Specialized
A place where workers empty the water so they can build or fix a ship's bottom
- Specialized
A way of painting that uses very little paint to make a rough, scratchy texture
- Specialized
A small battery with a moist paste inside that gives power to devices like a flashlight
- Offensive
An attack in which someone hides and kills another person by surprise in a lonely place
- Specialized
A small source of electricity used in devices like radios or flashlights that has no liquid
- Archaic
A way to make photographs on glass plates with a thin light-sensitive layer
- Specialized
A print made by scratching a metal plate with a hard needle to make dark, soft lines
- Specialized
Dead skin and flesh that become dry and dark when blood flow stops, often in a toe or foot
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Severe pain in the empty hole after a tooth is removed when the blood clot falls out
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A small insect that lives in and eats dry wood not touching the ground
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A portable structure that sinks so a ship can enter and then lifts it out for repair
- Specialized
A unit used in the United States to measure dry things like grain
How Dry
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dry comes from an old English word drig meaning 'not wet'. So when something is dry it simply has little or no water or moisture.