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dry

a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages

practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages; "he's been dry for ten years"; "no thank you; I happen to be teetotal"

lacking warmth or emotional involvement; "a dry greeting"; "a dry reading of the lines"; "a dry critique"

having a large proportion of strong liquor; "a very dry martini is almost straight gin"

without a mucous or watery discharge; "a dry cough"; "that rare thing in the wintertime; a small child with a dry nose"

humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit"

(of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish; "dry toast"; "dry meat"

having no adornment or coloration; "dry facts"; "rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner"

unproductive especially of the expected results; "a dry run"; "a mind dry of new ideas"

used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones; "dry weight"

lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless; "a dry book"; "a dry lecture filled with trivial details"; "dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to...life"- John Mason Brown

(of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; "a dry white burgundy"; "a dry Bordeaux"

not shedding tears; "dry sobs"; "with dry eyes"

free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry"

not producing milk; "a dry cow"

opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers"; "a dry state"

lacking moisture or volatile components; "dry paint"

remove the moisture from and make dry; "dry clothes"; "dry hair"

become dry or drier; "The laundry dries in the sun"

Synonyms:

• Rabelaisian,
• Saharan,
• Spartan,
• WCTU,
• acarpous,
• acerb,
• acerbate,
• acerbic,
• acescent,
• acetose,
• acid,
• acidulous,
• air-dry,
• anhydrate,
• anhydrous,
• antisaloon,
• apathetic,
• arid,
• ascetic,
• athirst,
• austere,
• bake,
• baked,
• bald,
• bare,
• barren,
• blah,
• blank,
• blast-freeze,
• bleed,
• bleed white,
• bloodless,
• blot,
• bone-dry,
• brassy,
• brazen,
• brine,
• broken-record,
• bromidic,
• brush,
• burn,
• cake,
• candid,
• caustic,
• celibate,
• characterless,
• childless,
• choked,
• coarse,
• cold,
• colorless,
• common,
• commonplace,
• concrete,
• congeal,
• corn,
• crab,
• crabbed,
• cracked,
• croaking,
• croaky,
• cure,
• cynical,
• dead,
• dehumidify,
• dehydrate,
• dehydrated,
• denude,
• deplete,
• depleted,
• deplume,
• desert,
• desiccate,
• desiccated,
• desolate,
• despoil,
• direct,
• discreet,
• dismal,
• displume,
• divest,
• draggy,
• drain,
• drained,
• drearisome,
• dreary,
• dried-up,
• droughty,
• dry as dust,
• dry-cure,
• dry-salt,
• dryasdust,
• dull,
• dusty,
• earthbound,
• effete,
• elephantine,
• embalm,
• empty,
• etiolated,
• evaporate,
• everlasting,
• exhaust,
• exhausted,
• exsiccate,
• fade,
• fallow,
• fire,
• flat,
• flay,
• fleece,
• frank,
• freeze,
• freeze-dry,
• fruitless,
• fume,
• gaunt,
• gelded,
• grating,
• green,
• gruff,
• guttural,
• harping,
• harsh,
• harsh-sounding,
• heavy,
• high and dry,
• ho-hum,
• hoarse,
• hollow,
• homely,
• homespun,
• humdrum,
• husky,
• impotent,
• impoverish,
• impoverished,
• inane,
• indurate,
• ineffectual,
• inexcitable,
• infecund,
• infertile,
• insipid,
• insolate,
• invariable,
• ironic,
• irradiate,
• issueless,
• jarring,
• jejune,
• jerk,
• jog-trot,
• juiceless,
• kiln,
• kipper,
• leached,
• leaden,
• lean,
• lifeless,
• like parchment,
• literal,
• long-winded,
• low-spirited,
• marinade,
• marinate,
• matter-of-fact,
• menopausal,
• metallic,
• milk,
• modest,
• moistureless,
• monotonous,
• mummify,
• mundane,
• natural,
• neat,
• nonfertile,
• nonproducing,
• nonproductive,
• nonprolific,
• open,
• pale,
• pallid,
• parch,
• parched,
• pedestrian,
• phlegmatic,
• pick clean,
• pickle,
• pickled,
• plain,
• plain-speaking,
• plain-spoken,
• plodding,
• pluck,
• pointless,
• poky,
• ponderous,
• preservatize,
• prohibitionist,
• prolix,
• prosaic,
• prosing,
• prosy,
• pungent,
• pure,
• quick-freeze,
• ragged,
• rasping,
• raucid,
• raucous,
• refrigerate,
• rough,
• roupy,
• rub,
• rude,
• rugged,
• rustic,
• salt,
• sandy,
• sapless,
• sapped,
• sarcastic,
• sardonic,
• satiric,
• scorch,
• sear,
• season,
• sec,
• sere,
• set,
• severe,
• shear,
• shovel,
• shrivel,
• simple,
• simple-speaking,
• sine prole,
• singsong,
• skin,
• slow,
• smoke,
• smoke-cure,
• soak up,
• sober,
• solemn,
• solidify,
• sour,
• sour as vinegar,
• soured,
• sourish,
• spare,
• spiritless,
• sponge,
• squawking,
• squawky,
• staid,
• stark,
• sterile,
• stertorous,
• stiff,
• stodgy,
• stoic,
• stolid,
• straightforward,
• strangled,
• strident,
• stridulous,
• strip,
• strip bare,
• stuff,
• stuffy,
• suck dry,
• sucked dry,
• sun,
• sun-dry,
• superficial,
• swab,
• tart,
• tartish,
• tasteless,
• tedious,
• teemless,
• teetotal,
• thick,
• thirsting,
• thirsty,
• throaty,
• tinny,
• torrefy,
• towel,
• treadmill,
• unadorned,
• unaffected,
• uncultivated,
• undamped,
• unembellished,
• uneventful,
• unfanciful,
• unfertile,
• unfruitful,
• ungarnished,
• unideal,
• unimaginative,
• uninspired,
• uninteresting,
• uninventive,
• unlively,
• unoriginal,
• unplowed,
• unpoetic,
• unpoetical,
• unpretentious,
• unproductive,
• unprolific,
• unripe,
• unromantic,
• unromanticized,
• unsown,
• unsweet,
• unsweetened,
• untilled,
• unvarnished,
• unvarying,
• unwatered,
• vapid,
• vinegarish,
• vinegary,
• virgin,
• waste,
• wasted,
• waterless,
• weariful,
• wearisome,
• weazen,
• wipe,
• wither,
• without issue,
• wizen,
• wooden