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Definition

lacking sufficient water or rainfall

or:

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
Atticus's voice had lost its comfortableness; he was speaking in his arid, detached professional voice.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

arid = lifeless (lacking vitality)

The mind is beset by light and space, the kinesthetic novelty of aridity, high temperature, and wind.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

aridity = dryness

the arid flatlands
Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die

arid = lacking sufficient water or rainfall

His voice had lost its aridity, its detachment, and he was talking to the jury as if they were folks on the post office corner.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

aridity = lack of vitality

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 heart
Hawthorne, 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
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
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

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