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Definition
lacking sufficient water or rainfallor:
lacking vitality or spirit
- My skin dries in the arid desert climate.
arid = dry
- a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata
- We see nearly the whole of Australia covered by lofty trees, yet that country possesses a far more arid climate.Darwin, Charles -- The Voyage of the Beagle
- the arid flatlandsHal Borland -- When the Legends Die
- He drew back his chair, clasped his hands over his head, and gave himself up to dull and arid musings.Twain, Mark -- Pudd'n'head Wilson
- Only some thirty arid summers had he seen; those summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness.Melville, Herman -- Moby Dick I-LXVII
- Wondrous strength arid generosity of a woman's heartHawthorne, Nathaniel -- The Scarlet Letter
- They went into the barn, arid hauled their parcels with a bit of string to the top of the haymow.Potter, Beatrix -- The Original Peter Rabbit Books
- Xavier Lavalle, in the name of the Law, descend arid submit to process for outrage of domicile.Kipling, Rudyard -- Actions and Reactions
- Are these plains composed of arid sand, as the first astronomer maintained?Verne, Jules -- Round The Moon
- One of them said, "The Sun, now while he is single, parches up the marsh, and compels us to die miserably in our arid homes."Aesop -- Fables
- He fancied she would not throw stones, and would go simply arid directly to see Anna, and would receive her in her own house.Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
- Now runneth she foolishly in the arid wilderness, and seeketh and seeketh the soft sward—mine old, wild wisdom!Nietzsche, Friedrich -- Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None
- an arid climate
- Arid, don't forget, you're the only one he asked for.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- We shared a cab along the arid miles between the Lutyens still life and the warm, palpitating motion picture of Old Delhi.James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
- They were sailing very slowly up a river without banks that meandered between arid sandbars stretching to the horizon.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
- The ghost of a world-famous violinist played as if behind veils, accompanied by a piano with the arid sound of a spinet—a romance by Rubinstein.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- Thomas immediately saw that the object that held everyone's attention was a simple stick poking out of the arid ground.James Dashner -- The Scorch Trials
- Partly because of the dominance of the letter 'I' and the aridity, which, like the giant beech tree, it casts within its shade.Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
arid = lacking sufficient water or rainfall