| Main Entry: | dryness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aridity |
Synonyms: |
dehydration, desiccation, drought, exsiccation, lack of moisture, parchedness |
Antonyms: |
wetness |
| Main Entry: | dryness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Dryness. |
| Category: | 2. Fluid matter; specific fluids |
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dryness; siccity, aridity, drought, ebb tide, low water., exsiccation, desiccation; arefaction, dephlegmation, drainage; drier, desiccative, desiccator.
-verbs
be dry; render dry; dry; dry up, soak up; sponge, swab, wipe; exsiccate, desiccate; drain, parch., be fine, hold up.
-adjectives
dry, anhydrous, arid; adust, arescent; dried; undamped; juiceless, sapless; sear; husky; rainless, without rain, fine; dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit., waterproof, watertight.
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Antonyms: |
moisture |
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| Main Entry: | monotony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boredom; sameness |
Synonyms: |
colorlessness, continuance, continuity, dreariness, dryness, dullness, ennui, equability, evenness, flatness, humdrum*, identicalness, invariability, levelness, likeness, monotone, monotonousness, oneness, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, routine, same old thing, similarity, tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness, unchangeableness, uniformity, wearisomeness |
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change, color, excitement, liveliness, variability, versatility |
| Main Entry: | thirst |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craving (especially for liquid) |
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appetite, aridity, desire, drought, dryness, eagerness, hankering, hunger, keenness, longing, lust, passion, thirstiness, yearning, yen |
| Main Entry: | dullness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quality of being boring |
Synonyms: |
aridity, boredom, commonplaceness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, familiarity, flatness, insipidity, insipidness, lifelessness, monotomy, routine, sameness, slowness, staleness, tediousness, tedium, uninterestingness, vapidity |
Antonyms: |
action, interest, liveliness |
| Main Entry: | tediousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tedium |
Synonyms: |
boredom, dryness, dullness, monotony, sameness, tiresomeness |
| Main Entry: | volatility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evaporation |
Synonyms: |
dryness, vaporization, vaporousness |
| Main Entry: | drabness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness |
Synonyms: |
blandness, boringness, colorlessness, dinginess, dowdiness, dreariness, dryness, flatness, flavorlessness, gloominess, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, stodginess, vapidity, vapidness |
| Main Entry: | dreariness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gloominess |
Synonyms: |
blandness, boringness, colorlessness, depression, drabness, dryness, dullness, flatness, flavorlessness, forlornness, gloom, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, joylessness, lifelessness, melancholy, sadness, vapidity, vapidness |