Usually means: Dry, lacking sufficient water, barren.
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  1. arid: Merriam-Webster
  2. arid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. arid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. arid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. arid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Arid, arid: Wordnik
  7. arid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. arid: Wiktionary
  9. arid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. arid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. arid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. arid: Dictionary.com
  13. arid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. arid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ARID, Arid (band), Arid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Arid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. arid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. arid: Rhymezone
  19. arid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. arid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. arid: FreeDictionary.org
  22. arid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. arid: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. arid: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. arid: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. arid: Merriam-Webster

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  1. arid-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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  1. arid: Legal dictionary

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  1. arid: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ARID: Acronym Finder
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Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Arid: Gems and Precious Stones
  2. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See aridity as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Very dry.
adjective:  Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
adjective:  (figurative) Devoid of value.

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