dry
free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,166 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 15,805 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.008% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet dry landdry clothes
- humorously sarcastic or mocking also: ironic, ironical, wry dry humoran ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely
- lacking moisture or volatile components dry paint
- opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggersa dry state
- not producing milk a dry cow
- (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation a dry white burgundya dry Bordeaux
dry in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The King, much moved, said, ‘Adorable Princess, dry your tears.
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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All her quarter and what was there, was free and dry.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1
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For now the few classic books they owned, so cold and dry, existed no longer.
The Dream · Émile Zola · Chapter 1
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She put her hands over her face, and for a moment dry sobs convulsed her.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · Chapter 1
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The night was perfectly still, and the air so dry and pure that it gave little sensation of cold.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1