arid

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ar·id /ˈærɪd/ adjective  1  DRYarid land or an arid climate is very dry because it has very little rain 〔土地或气候〕干燥的，干旱的 Water from the Great Lakes is pumped to arid regions. 五大湖中的水被输往干旱地区。2  USELESSnot having any new, interesting, or exciting features or qualities 无创见的，无新意的 My mind was arid, all inspiration gone. 我才思枯竭，灵感尽失。 —aridity /əˈrɪdəti/ noun [uncountable]

Examples from the Corpus

arid• Balloon pilot John Bagwell likes to surprise tourists with this unexpected greenery in the arid center of Arizona.• an arid climate• Much of Namibia is arid country and only fit for raising goats.• This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man.• The birds inhabit tropical forests, savannah, and arid semi-desert conditions.• In the arid summer, the landscape becomes brown and dusty.• The region is an arid wasteland.arid regions• In arid regions, rainfall above the average one year will produce a particularly thick annual ring.Origin arid (1600-1700) French aride, from Latin aridus

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or very an arid is climate it dry arid because land Corpus

arid
ar‧id /ˈærəd, ˈærɪd/ adjective1. arid land or an arid climate is very dry because it has very little rain:
    Water from the Great Lakes is pumped to arid regions.
2. not having any new, interesting, or exciting features or qualities:
    My mind was arid, all inspiration gone.
—aridity /əˈrɪdəti, əˈrɪdɪti/ noun [uncountable]
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ dry having very little moisture, or no longer wet: How do plants survive in hot dry conditions? | My mouth feels dry. | The clothes should be dry. | The ground was bone dry (=completely dry).
   ▪ parched completely dry – used about land, or about someone’s lips, throat, skin etc: The earth was so parched that there were huge cracks in it. | parched lips
   ▪ arid extremely dry because of lack or rain and therefore difficult for growing crops: the arid landscape of the Danakil desert | an arid mountain region

aridBrE /ˈærɪd/ 🔊NAmE /ˈærɪd/ 🔊 adjective(of land or a climate 土地或气候) having little or no rain; very dry 干旱的；干燥的◆arid and semi-arid deserts干旱和半干旱的沙漠

arid, climate, continental climate, equatorial, frigid, harsh, humidity, rainfall, tropical, zone

(formal) with nothing new or interesting in it 枯燥的；乏味的；毫无新意的◆an arid discussion枯燥的讨论▸ arid·ity BrE /əˈrɪdəti/ 🔊NAmE /əˈrɪdəti/ 🔊 noun [uncountable]