What does dry mean?
Dry means Free from or lacking moisture..
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/ˈdɹaɪ̯/ · adjective
Free from or lacking moisture..
This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?
The weather, […] we […] both agreed, was too dry for the season.
The marjorum stood in ruddy and fragrant masses; harebells and campanulas of several kinds, that are cultivated in our gardens, with bells large and clear; crimson pinks; the Michaelmas daisy; a plant with a thin, radiated yellow flower, of the character of an aster; a centaurea of a light purple, handsomer than any English one; a thistle in the dryest places, resembling an eryngo, with a thick, bushy top; mulleins, yellow and white; the wild mignonnette, and the white convolvulus; and clematis festooning the bushes, recalled the flowery fields and lanes of England, and yet told us that we were not there.
Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.
The project poses exceptional challenges, given that Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest continent on Earth, as well as the most remote and inaccessible, being almost totally covered by a vast ice sheet.
It is one of the first towns in the United States to purposely stall growth for want of water in a new era of megadroughts. But it could be a harbinger of things to come in a hotter, drier West. […] Experts say the smallest towns are especially vulnerable. And few places in Utah are as tiny or dry as Echo, a jumble of homes squeezed between a freight railroad and stunning red-rock cliffs.
This well is as dry as that cow.
[A]lready the gate was blocked with a wall of squared stones laid dry, but very thick and very high, across the opening.
Use dry when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dry means Free from or lacking moisture..
Common synonyms include sober, anhydrous, arid, bone dry.
Possible antonyms include wet, sweet, phlegmy, lactating.
This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?
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