Dry

Adjective

 * 1) Free from liquid or moisture.
 * 2)  Free of water in any state; anhydrous
 * 3)  Lacking sugar or low in sugar; not sweet.
 * 4) Maintaining temperance; void or abstinent from alcoholic beverages.
 * 5)  Subtly humorous, yet without mirth.
 * 6)  Not working with chemical or biological matter, but, rather, doing computations.

Verb

 * 1)  To lose moisture.
 * 2)  To remove moisture from.

Adverbs for Dry
terribly; painfully; horribly; intolerably; unbearably; unprofitably; unproductively; treelersly;  dustily; torridly;  hopelessly; desperately; heartbreakingly; destructively; insupportably; feverishly; parchedly.

Synonyms for Dry

 * arid, parched
 * stale, barren, sear, moistless, thirsty, watertight, dull, tedious, uninteresting, meagre, juiceless, vapid, prosy, hard, jejune, severe, cynical, sneering, sarcastic.

Antonyms for Dry

 * wet
 * wet
 * wet
 * moist, damp, soggy, soaked, oozing, watery, saturated, muddy, humid, dripping, juicy, interesting.

Derived terms

 * bone dry
 * dry as a bone
 * dry as a dead dingo’s donger
 * dry cough
 * dry hole
 * dry ice
 * drily
 * dry run
 * dryly
 * dryness
 * dry spell
 * drywall
 * dry weight
 * like watching paint dry
 * drier
 * dryer
 * dry out
 * dry up
 * nondrying

Thesaurus
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, 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,

Etymology 1
From dryge:

Etymology 2
From drygan:, from dryge:

Adjective

 * Afrikaans: dor
 * Albanian: i thatë
 * Arabic: جاف
 * Armenian: չոր (čor)
 * Basque: lehor
 * Belarusian: сухі
 * Bulgarian: сух
 * Catalan: eixut, sec
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გამშრალი (gamšrali)
 * German:
 * Greek: (stegnós),
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: सूखा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 乾く
 * Japanese: 乾く


 * Korean: 마른, 건
 * Kurdish:
 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: sauss
 * Lithuanian: sausas
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Old Norse:
 * Persian: خشک
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tuyô
 * Telugu: పొడి
 * Thai: แห้ง
 * Ukrainian: сухий
 * Urdu: سوکھا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: sägik
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: droech
 * Yiddish: פֿאַרטריקנט (fartríknt)


 * Bulgarian: сух
 * Finnish:, , (alcohol)
 * Greek: άνυδρος


 * Kurdish:
 * Romanian: uscat, deshidratat, arid
 * Turkish: kuru


 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Swedish: torrlagd (involuntarily), vit (informal, rare)

Verb

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: съхна, изсъхвам
 * Catalan: assecar, eixugar
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: droog worden
 * Estonian: kuivama
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: þorna
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 乾く (かわく, kawaku)


 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian: žūt, izžūt
 * Lithuanian: džiūti, išdžiūti
 * Polish: wysychać
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ; , высохнуть
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఆరిపోవు
 * Welsh: sychu


 * Arabic: يبس, جفف
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:, изсушавам
 * Catalan: eixugar, assecar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:,  擦乾,  擦干
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: kuivatama
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: þurrka
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:,  拭く
 * Korean: 말리다 (mallida)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: žāvēt
 * Lithuanian: džiovinti
 * Polish: osuszać
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, высушить ;    , вытереть
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఆరబెట్టు
 * Welsh: sychu

Etymology
From Celtic *druwis: cognate with Old Irish druí (Irish draoi, Gaelic druidh ‘magician’).

Noun

 * 1) a sorcerer or magician
 * ''Hi woldon forbærnan ðone dry. —Ælfric’s Homilies, vol. 1. (‘They would burn the sorceror.’)