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dryish

dryish

3.3
A little not completely wet, often describing land or clothes
  • adjective
  • /ˈdraɪɪʃ/
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  • After a week without watering, the soil in the garden became quite dryish.

Examples

  • The weather was dryish, with only a few drops of rain falling throughout the day.

  • It had been a dryish spring—no storms to rattle the foliage—so the flowering shrubbery kept blooming through June.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Oh, and that kind of dryish formula, the length, yes, like look at that.

  • "My clothes must be dryish," said Bryce.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • He noticed the cake was a bit dryish, lacking the moisture he expected.

Synonyms

medium-dry
vsdryish
1 4.0

A wine or drink that is not sweet and is only slightly dry

is the more general slight dryness applying beyond beverages
semi-dry
vsdryish
3.8

Partly dry and still a little wet

is slightly dry in general use rather than fully wet

Antonyms

wet
1 1.0

A place or thing covered with liquid

How Dry

bone-dry
1 3.4
dry
791 1.0
dryish
3.3
damp
113 1.0
wet
1 1.0

Surface Forms

dryish positive

Morphology

dryish = dry (transparent) = dry + ish

Describes degree of dryness (not fully wet) by adding the mitigator '-ish' to 'dry'.

Etymology

Dryish is dry + -ish, with -ish meaning 'somewhat', like in smallish. 'Dry' means 'not wet', so dryish means a little dry or not completely wet.