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Characterized by dryness and a lack of humidity or precipitation

Infertile, especially of land due to dryness

Lacking in interest, excitement or meaning

(of a landscape) Desolate and barren

Very hot and dry

(of land) Uninhabited or cultivated

Academic in manner, often in an annoying or boring way

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Adjective

Characterized by dryness and a lack of humidity or precipitation

longing for a drink

in need of a drink

spitting feathers

dying of thirst

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“From the arid climate of the Sahara to the cold wastes of Siberia, man has learnt how to cope in a wide variety of ways with the effects of the atmosphere.”

Adjective

Infertile, especially of land due to dryness

nonreproductive

without living things

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“He contrasted the great expanses of Lough Mask with the arid land in which his own people lived.”

Adjective

Lacking in interest, excitement or meaning

soul-destroying

run-of-the-mill

lacking variety

dull as dishwater

nothing to write home about

no great shakes

dull as ditchwater

non-stimulating

middle-of-the-road

lacking variation

lacking excitement

lacking interest

common or garden

unobjectionable

without variety

flat as pancake

puts one to sleep

undistinguished

run of the mill

nothing special

unexceptionable

undemonstrative

run-of-the-mine

nothing to get excited about

straightforward

devoid of emotion

inconsequential

fair-to-middling

fair to middling

unprepossessing

unsophisticated

lacking in vitality

devoid of feeling

standardized^US

standardised^UK

conventionalized

blending into the background

demoralizing^US

demoralising^UK

uncommunicative

run-of-the mill

behind the times

not amounting to much

incomprehensible

lacking vitality

two-dimensional

neither one thing nor the other

middle of the road

unextraordinary

anesthetized^US

par for the course

nothing out of the ordinary

anaesthetised^UK

in the doldrums

of little consequence

of little importance

of no consequence

not worth mentioning

of no importance

of no great concern

readily available

widely available

uncompassionate

desensitized^US

along for the ride

desensitised^UK

pure and simple

lacking originality

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“Her mere existence had given a sense of meaning to his arid and dull life.”

Adjective

(of a landscape) Desolate and barren

without vegetation

open to the elements

nonreproductive

without living things

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Adjective

Very hot and dry

like a blowtorch

uncomfortably warm

like a Turkish bath

with a temperature

with a high temperature

running a temperature

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Adjective

(of land) Uninhabited or cultivated

Adjective

Academic in manner, often in an annoying or boring way

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