arid

From French aride or directly from Latin āridus (“dry, arid, parched”),^[1] compare its synonymous contracted form ardus. Originally from the verb āreo (“to be dry, to be parched”), akin to ārdeō (“to be on fire, to burn”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæɹɪd/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈaɹɪd/
• (US, without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈæɹɪd/

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• (US, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɚɪd/

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• (Scotland, Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾɪd/

arid (comparative arider or more arid, superlative aridest or most arid)

1. Very dry.

   Antonyms: wet, drenched, damp, moist

   The cake was arid.

2. Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.

   Synonym: xeric

   Antonyms: rainforest, humid

   Hyponyms: semi-arid, semiarid

   Deserts are known for being arid.

   • 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:

     And because this part of Utah is arid, the geologic landscape is fully revealed with very little vegetation to hide it, faults and all.

   • 2025 December 11, Charlie Campbell, Andrew R. Chow and Billy Perrigo, “The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year”, in Time‎^[1]:

     Once a livestock hub, Abilene has become an AI boomtown. Its arid outskirts are home to the flagship campus of Stargate, the data-center partnership between OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank heralded by Trump in January.

3. (figurative) Devoid of value.

   Antonyms: valuable, costly, precious

   The millionaire viewed his gift as arid.

   • 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 37:

     Such occupations might have seemed arid to those who did not possess the intellect to appreciate their subtleties.

• aridity

• arid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Radi, raid, Rida, RAID, dira, Dair, dari, riad, Aird, Irad, Dari, IARD

• IPA^(key): /aˈʁiːt/

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• Hyphenation: arid

arid (strong nominative masculine singular arider, comparative arider, superlative am aridesten)

1. arid

• humid

• Aridität
• semiarid
• vollarid

• “arid” in Duden online
• “arid”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)
• “arid” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

From English arid, from either French aride or directly from Latin āridus (“dry, arid, parched”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈarɪt̚/
• Hyphenation: arid
• Homophone: arit

arid (comparative lebih arid, superlative paling arid)

1. (geography) arid

• “arid”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from French aride, from Latin aridus.

arid m or n (feminine singular aridă, masculine plural arizi, feminine/neuter plural aride)

1. barren

• ariditate