Dry

Quick meaning: Dry is an adjective meaning Free from or lacking moisture.

Meaning

Free from or lacking moisture.

More Meanings

1. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
2. (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
3. (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
4. (figurative) Athirst, eager.
5. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
6. (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
7. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:

Example Sentences

This well is as dry as that cow.

Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.

The weather, […] we […] both agreed, was too dry for the season.

This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?

Word Forms

• dryer
• dryest
• drys
• drying

Synonyms for dry

Depending on context, synonyms include sober, anhydrous, bone dry, exsuccous, sare, sear.

Antonyms for dry

Common opposites include wet, sweet, phlegmy, lactating.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bone-dry, tearless, sere, dry-eyed, juiceless, dry-shod.

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