Dry; exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; as an arid waste.
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A kind of taffeta, from the East Indies, made of thread, from certain plants.
1. ARID'ITY ,
2. AR'IDNESS, noun
3. Dryness; a state of being without moisture.
4. A dry state of the body; emaciation; the withering of a limb.
1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness.
2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought.
Unproductiveness Roget’s Thesaurus §169
N. unproductiveness, infertility, sterility, infecundity, masturbation, impotence, unprofitableness, waste, desert, sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness
V. be - unproductive, hang fire, flash in the pan, come to nothing, sterilize, addle, disable, inactivate
Adj. unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund, sine prole, fallow, teemless, issueless, fruitless, unprofitable, null and void, of no effect
Dryness Roget’s Thesaurus §340
N. dryness, siccity, aridity, # drought, ebb tide, low water, exsiccation|, desiccation, arefaction|, dephlegmation|, drainage, drier, desiccative, dessicator, dessicator, hair drier, clothes drier, gas drier, electric drier, vacuum oven, drying oven, kiln, lyophilizer, clothesline
Weariness Roget’s Thesaurus §841
N. weariness, defatigation|, lassitude, drowsiness, disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness, satiety, taedium vitae, boredom, ennui, wearisomeness, tediousness, dull work, tedium, monotony, twice-told tale, bore, buttonholer, proser, wet blanket, pill*, stiff*, heavy hours, "the enemy"
V. weary, tire, bore, bore to death, weary to death, tire to death, bore out of one's skull, bore out of one's life, weary out of one's life, tire out of one's life, bore out of all patience, weary out of all patience, wear out one's patience, tire out of all patience, set to sleep, send to sleep, buttonhole, pall, sicken, nauseate, disgust, harp on the same string, drag its slow length along, drag its weary length along, never hear the last of, be tired of, be sick of, be tired with, yawn, die with ennui, mego, my eyes glaze over
Adj. wearying, wearing, wearisome, tiresome, irksome, uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat, prosy, prosing, slow, soporific, somniferous, disgusting, unenjoyed, weary, tired, drowsy, uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life, sick of
Adv. wearily, usque ad nauseam
Phr. time hanging heavily on one's hands, toujours perdrix, crambe repetita
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2 KJV and 6 BSB verses contain “ARID”
And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,
Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha.
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’