😐 Mildly unemotional 🍰 Slightly dry taste 🍞 Not fully wet

dryish

4.2

Slightly quiet and serious in style, not showing much feeling

adjective
/ˈdraɪɪʃ/

: seco

She had a dryish way of speaking that made it hard to tell if she was joking.

Examples

His dryish jokes often left the audience feeling a bit unsure whether to laugh.
The atmosphere at the meeting was a bit dryish, lacking in enthusiasm and energy.
It really is a skinny pencil, but like not too dry, not too soft.

Synonyms

dry

vsdryish

45 4.6

Quiet, calm humor that shows little emotion

is only mildly unemotional and gently understated

baldish

vsdryish

6.8

Simple and plain in style, giving only basic facts

is more mildly unemotional and understated in tone

stiffish

vsdryish

6.7

A little formal and not warm in how someone acts

is less formal and only mildly unemotional rather than rigid

Antonyms

emotional

535 2.1

Showing strong feelings that are easy to see

How Dry

deadpan

9 7.5

dry

45 4.6

dryish

4.2

understated

27 6.5

Surface Forms

dryish positive

drier comparative

driest superlative

Morphology

dryish = dry (transparent) = dry + ish

The adjective is formed by adding the productive suffix '-ish' to the adjective 'dry', yielding 'somewhat dry'.

Etymology

Dryish is formed from dry + -ish, where -ish means 'somewhat', like in reddish. 'Dry' can mean 'not showing strong feeling', as in 'dry humor', so dryish means slightly unemotional or subtly funny.