Definitions from Wiktionary ()
|
|
▸ adjective: Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
▸ adjective: (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
▸ adjective: (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
▸ adjective: (figurative) Athirst, eager.
▸ adjective: Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
▸ adjective: (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
▸ adjective: Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
▸ adjective: (wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
▸ adjective: (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
▸ adjective: Lacking interest, boring.
▸ adjective: (poker) Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
▸ adjective: (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
▸ adjective: (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
▸ adjective: (sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
▸ adjective: (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
▸ adjective: Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
▸ adjective: Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
▸ adjective: (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
▸ adjective: (Malaysia, Singapore, of noodles) Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
▸ noun: The process by which something is dried.
▸ noun: (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
▸ noun: An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
▸ noun: (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
▸ noun: (Australia) An area of waterless country.
▸ noun: Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
▸ noun: (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To lose moisture.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove moisture from.
▸ verb: (transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
▸ verb: (intransitive, informal, theater) For an actor to forget their lines while performing.
▸ adjective: (software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as little repetition as possible.
▸ verb: (software engineering) To cause code to become DRY; to remove repetition from code.
▸ noun: A surname.
Similar:
Opposite:
Types:
Phrases:
Adjectives:
Colors:
|
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to dry
▸ Usage examples for dry
▸ Idioms related to dry
▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing dry
▸ Popular nouns described by dry
▸ Words that often appear near dry
▸ Rhymes of dry
▸ Invented words related to dry