Arid - English meaning

adjective

(of food) cooked by dry heat in an oven.

Usage examples:

Baked apples

verb

Cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven.

Usage examples:

They bake their own bread and cakes

verb

Past simple and past participle of bake

Usage examples:

I made the icing while the cake was baking., a baked potato, freshly baked bread, bake at 180°c for…

adjective

So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.

Usage examples:

Songs with banal, repeated words

adjective

Too often used in the past and therefore not interesting

Usage examples:

He just sat there making banal remarks all evening.

adjective

(of land) too poor to produce much or any vegetation.

Usage examples:

The plains of kyrenia were barren

noun

A barren tract or tracts of land.

Usage examples:

The newfoundland barrens

adjective

Not interesting; tedious.

Usage examples:

I've got a boring job in an office

verb

Make (a hole) in something with a tool or by digging.

Usage examples:

Bore a hole in the wall to pass the cable through

verb

Cause (someone) to feel weary and uninterested by dull talk or behaviour.

Usage examples:

She is too polite to bore us with anecdotes

adjective

(especially of a gas or liquid) without colour.

Usage examples:

A colourless liquid

adjective

Having no colour

Usage examples:

Water and glass are colourless., carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless, poisonous gas., it is …

adjective

Having lost a large amount of water from the body.

Usage examples:

His body temperature was high and he had become dehydrated

verb

Cause (a person or their body) to lose a large amount of water.

Usage examples:

The heat dehydrated us even when we stood still

adjective

Not having the normal amount of water in your body so that you feel ill or weak

verb

Abandon (a person, cause, or organization) in a way considered disloyal or treacherous.

Usage examples:

We feel our public representatives have deserted us

noun

A waterless, desolate area of land with little or no vegetation, typically one covered with sand.

Usage examples:

The desert of the sinai peninsula is a harsh place

adjective

Like a desert.

Usage examples:

Overgrazing has created desert conditions

adjective

Having had all moisture removed; dried out.

Usage examples:

The withered, desiccated landscape

verb

Remove the moisture from (something); cause to become completely dry.

Usage examples:

Both the older growth and the new vegetation were desiccated by months of relentless sun

adjective

Dried, with the moisture removed

Usage examples:

100 g of desiccated coconut, all the party seems to have to offer is the same desiccated old ideas.

adjective

(of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness.

Usage examples:

A desolate pennine moor

verb

Make (a place) appear bleakly empty.

Usage examples:

The droughts that desolated the dry plains

adjective

(of a place) having no living things; empty

Usage examples:

A desolate landscape, when her son left for a year abroad, she felt desolate.

adjective

Lacking brightness or interest; drearily dull.

Usage examples:

The landscape was drab and grey

noun

Fabric of a dull light brown colour.

Usage examples:

A young man dressed in drabs

noun

A slovenly woman.

adjective

Depressingly dull and bleak or repetitive.

Usage examples:

The dreary round of working, eating, and trying to sleep

adjective

Unattractive and having nothing of any interest, and therefore likely to make you sad

Usage examples:

It was a gray, dreary day, with periods of rain.

adjective

Free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist.

Usage examples:

The jacket kept me warm and dry

noun

(of information, writing, etc.) dully factual.

Usage examples:

The dry facts of the matter

verb

Free from liquid or moisture

adjective

Lacking interest or excitement.

Usage examples:

Your diet doesn't have to be dull and boring

verb

Make or become dull or less intense.

Usage examples:

Time dulls the memory

adjective

Not interesting or exciting; boring

Usage examples:

Many of the courtroom events were dull and routine., the lecture was dry, dull, and full of statist…

adjective

Having a level surface; without raised areas or indentations.

Usage examples:

He sat down on a flat rock

adverb

In or to a horizontal position.

Usage examples:

He was lying flat on his back

noun

The flat part of something.

Usage examples:

She placed the flat of her hand over her glass

adjective

(of a person, animal, or plant) unable to reproduce itself; unable to have young.

Usage examples:

Infertile couples are offered specialist advice

adjective

(of people or animals) not able to produce young, or (of land) of poor quality for growing crops

Usage examples:

An infertile couple, infertile soil

adjective

Naive, simplistic, and superficial.

Usage examples:

Their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions

adjective

Very simple or childish

Usage examples:

He made jejune generalizations about how all students were lazy and never did any work., a jejune l…

adjective

Dead or apparently dead.

Usage examples:

His lifeless body was taken from the river

adjective

Dead or appearing to be dead

Usage examples:

A lifeless body, fig. the performance was boring and lifeless (= lacking interest or energy).

noun

A photograph or picture developed or executed in black and white or in varying tones of only one colour.

Usage examples:

Pioneering monochromes by malevich, rodchenko, reinhardt, klein and ryman employ just one color, un…

adjective

(of a photograph or picture, or a television screen) consisting of or displaying images in black and white or in varying tones of only one colour.

Usage examples:

The images are displayed on monochrome screens on the flight deck and on the lower deck.

adjective

Using only black, white, and grey, or using only one colour

Usage examples:

Kodak still produces monochrome film., the park in winter is a depressing monochrome brown., a mono…

adjective

Dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.

Usage examples:

The statistics that he quotes with monotonous regularity

adjective

Boring because of never changing

Usage examples:

She stood all day ironing a monotonous succession of clothes and sheets.

adjective

Dried out with heat.

Usage examples:

The parched earth

verb

Make or become dry through intense heat.

Usage examples:

A piece of grassland parched by the sun

adjective

Burned by flames or heat.

Usage examples:

The suburbs resembled a battlefield with row after row of burned-out homes and the scorched remains…

verb

Burn the surface of (something) with flame or heat.

Usage examples:

Surrounding houses were scorched by heat from the blast

adjective

Slightly burned, or damaged by fire or heat

Usage examples:

The countryside was scorched after several weeks of hot sun.

adjective

A soul-destroying job or other activity is so boring that it makes you very unhappy

Usage examples:

Repetitive work can become soul-destroying after a while.

adjective

Not able to produce children or young.

Usage examples:

The disease had made him sterile

adjective

(of a person or animal) unable to produce young, or of land unable to produce plants or crops

Usage examples:

It was a small oasis surrounded by sterile desert., medical equipment must be kept sterile., suburb…

adjective

Too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous.

Usage examples:

A tedious journey

adjective

Feeling a need to drink.

Usage examples:

The guides were hot and thirsty

adjective

Needing to drink something

Usage examples:

She was very thirsty but took only a few sips of water., fig. always thirsty for power, he would do…

adjective

Not producing good or helpful results; unproductive.

Usage examples:

The meeting was unfruitful

adjective

Not producing any good or valuable result

Usage examples:

The two sides have been involved in lengthy - but so far unfruitful - negotiations., if allowed to …

adjective

Not producing excitement or interest.

Usage examples:

An uninspiring game that united scarcely deserved to win

adjective

Not making you feel excited or interested

Usage examples:

The menu looked fairly uninspiring.

adjective

Not arousing curiosity or interest.

Usage examples:

The scenery is dull and uninteresting

adjective

Not interesting

adjective

Not producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or other commodities.

Usage examples:

Unproductive land must be reforested

adjective

Not useful, or not creating anything

Usage examples:

We wasted three days in unproductive discussions.

adjective

Not producing goods, crops, profits, etc. in a satisfactory amount

Usage examples:

Unproductive investments/jobs/projects, grass planted on currently unproductive land could form a u…

adjective

Not arousing interest or enthusiasm.

Usage examples:

His current job is mundane and unstimulating

adjective

Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging; bland.

Usage examples:

Tuneful but vapid musical comedies

adjective

Showing no intelligence or imagination

Usage examples:

A vapid reality tv show, he's attractive, but vapid.

verb

Use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.

Usage examples:

We can't afford to waste electricity

adjective

(of a material, substance, or by-product) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process.

Usage examples:

Ensure that waste materials are disposed of responsibly

noun

An act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.

Usage examples:

It's a waste of time trying to argue with him