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Overview of noun dry
The noun dry has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. dry, prohibitionist -- (a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages)
Overview of verb dry
The verb dry has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (12) dry, dry out -- (remove the moisture from and make dry; "dry clothes"; "dry hair")
2. (11) dry, dry out -- (become dry or drier; "The laundry dries in the sun")
Overview of adj dry
The adj dry has 16 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (20) dry -- (free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry")
2. (1) dry, ironic, ironical, wry -- (humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit")
3. dry -- (lacking moisture or volatile components; "dry paint")
4. dry -- (opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers"; "a dry state")
5. dry -- (not producing milk; "a dry cow")
6. dry -- ((of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; "a dry white burgundy"; "a dry Bordeaux")
7. dry -- (without a mucous or watery discharge; "a dry cough"; "that rare thing in the wintertime; a small child with a dry nose")
8. dry -- (not shedding tears; "dry sobs"; "with dry eyes")
9. dry, juiceless -- (lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless; "a dry book"; "a dry lecture filled with trivial details"; "dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to...life"- John Mason Brown)
10. dry -- (used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones; "dry weight")
11. dry -- (unproductive especially of the expected results; "a dry run"; "a mind dry of new ideas")
12. dry -- (having no adornment or coloration; "dry facts"; "rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner")
13. dry -- ((of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish; "dry toast"; "dry meat")
14. dry -- (having a large proportion of strong liquor; "a very dry martini is almost straight gin")
15. dry -- (lacking warmth or emotional involvement; "a dry greeting"; "a dry reading of the lines"; "a dry critique")
16. dry, teetotal -- (practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages; "he's been dry for ten years"; "no thank you; I happen to be teetotal")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dry
1 sense of dry
Sense 1
dry, prohibitionist
=> reformer, reformist, crusader, social reformer, meliorist
=> disputant, controversialist, eristic
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun dry
1 sense of dry
Sense 1
dry, prohibitionist
HAS INSTANCE=> Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation
HAS INSTANCE=> Willard, Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dry
1 sense of dry
Sense 1
dry, prohibitionist
=> reformer, reformist, crusader, social reformer, meliorist
Antonyms of noun dry
Member Holonyms of noun dry
Substance Holonyms of noun dry
Part Holonyms of noun dry
Member Meronyms of noun dry
Substance Meronyms of noun dry
Part Meronyms of noun dry
Meronyms of noun dry
Holonyms of noun dry
Attributes of noun dry
Derived Forms of noun dry
Domain of noun dry
Domain Terms of noun dry
Familiarity of noun dry
dry used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun dry
1 sense of dry
Sense 1
dry, prohibitionist
> reformer, reformist, crusader, social reformer, meliorist
=> abolitionist, emancipationist
=> birth-control campaigner, birth-control reformer
=> Chartist
=> civil rights leader, civil rights worker, civil rights activist
=> demonstrator, protester
=> dry, prohibitionist
=> environmentalist, conservationist
=> feminist, women's rightist, women's liberationist, libber
=> hippie, hippy, hipster, flower child
=> insurgent, insurrectionist, freedom fighter, rebel
=> militant, activist
=> non-resistant, passive resister
=> preservationist
=> Utopian
HAS INSTANCE=> Comstock, Anthony Comstock
HAS INSTANCE=> Dix, Dorothea Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix
HAS INSTANCE=> Huss, John Huss, Hus, Jan Hus
HAS INSTANCE=> Owen, Robert Owen
HAS INSTANCE=> Savonarola, Girolamo Savonarola
HAS INSTANCE=> Townsend, Francis Everett Townsend
HAS INSTANCE=> Wilkes, John Wilkes
Meronyms of noun dry
1 sense of dry
Sense 1
dry, prohibitionist
=> reformer, reformist, crusader, social reformer, meliorist
=> disputant, controversialist, eristic
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun dry
Grep of noun dry
animal husbandry
bawdry
bell foundry
cuckoldry
dirty laundry
dry
dry-bulb thermometer
dry-gulching
dry-stone wall
dry-wood termite
dry battery
dry cell
dry cereal
dry cleaner
dry cleaners
dry cleaning
dry dock
dry fly
dry gangrene
dry ice
dry kiln
dry land
dry masonry
dry measure
dry milk
dry mop
dry mouth
dry mustard
dry nurse
dry pint
dry plate
dry plate process
dry point
dry quart
dry rot
dry run
dry season
dry socket
dry unit
dry vermouth
dry wall
dry walling
dry wash
dryad
dryadella
dryas
dryas octopetala
dryden
drydock
dryer
drygoods
drying agent
drying oil
drying up
dryland berry
dryland blueberry
drymarchon
drymarchon corais
drymarchon corais couperi
drymoglossum
drynaria
drynaria rigidula
dryness
dryopithecine
dryopithecus
dryopithecus rudapithecus hungaricus
dryopteridaceae
dryopteris
dryopteris dilatata
dryopteris filix-mas
dryopteris fragrans
dryopteris goldiana
dryopteris hexagonoptera
dryopteris marginalis
dryopteris noveboracensis
dryopteris oreades
dryopteris oreopteris
dryopteris phegopteris
dryopteris thelypteris
dryopteris thelypteris pubescens
drypis
drywall
floating dry dock
foundry
heraldry
husbandry
iron foundry
laundry
monandry
nonfat dry milk
polyandry
ribaldry
united states dry unit
wizardry
Antonyms of verb dry
1 of 2 senses of dry
Sense 1
dry, dry out
Antonym of wet (Sense 1)
=>wet
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb dry
2 senses of dry
Sense 1
dry, dry out
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 2
dry, dry out
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb dry
2 senses of dry
Sense 1
dry, dry out
=> exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up, desiccate
=> dehydrate, desiccate
=> spin-dry
=> tumble dry
=> spray-dry
=> dehumidify
=> parch, sear
=> rough-dry
=> blow-dry
=> drip-dry
=> air
Sense 2
dry, dry out
=> scorch
=> run dry, dry out
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb dry
2 senses of dry
Sense 1
dry, dry out
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 2
dry, dry out
=> change
'Cause To' of verb dry
1 of 2 senses of dry
Sense 1
dry, dry out
=> dry, dry out
Derived Forms of verb dry
2 senses of dry
Sense 1
dry, dry out
RELATED TO>(noun) drier#1
=> desiccant, drying agent, drier, sicative
RELATED TO>(noun) drier#2
=> dryer, drier
Sense 2
dry, dry out
RELATED TO>(noun) drier#1
=> desiccant, drying agent, drier, sicative
RELATED TO>(noun) drier#2
=> dryer, drier
Domain of verb dry
Domain Terms of verb dry
Familiarity of verb dry
dry used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb dry
2 senses of dry
Sense 1
dry, dry out
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 2
dry, dry out
*> Something ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb dry
2 senses of dry
Sense 1
dry, dry out
> change, alter, modify
=> awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
=> cause to sleep
=> affect
=> refresh, freshen, refreshen
=> inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise
=> indispose
=> cry
=> etiolate
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> opalize, opalise
=> arterialize, arterialise
=> make, get
=> counterchange, transpose, interchange
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn
=> etiolate
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise
=> allegorize, allegorise
=> demythologize, demythologise
=> bring, land
=> coarsen
=> affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
=> alchemize, alchemise
=> alcoholize, alcoholise
=> shape, form
=> round off, round down, round out, round
=> suspend
=> sober
=> reconstruct
=> increase
=> ease up, ease off, let up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> commute, convert, exchange
=> vitalize, vitalise
=> unclutter, clear
=> activate
=> activate
=> activate, aerate
=> activate
=> inactivate, deactivate
=> deaden, blunt
=> remodel, reconstruct, redo
=> edit, redact
=> edit, cut, edit out
=> tame, chasten, subdue
=> chasten, moderate, temper
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
=> wet
=> dry, dry out
=> lubricate
=> strengthen, beef up, fortify
=> spike, lace, fortify
=> weaken
=> blunt
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> unite, unify, merge
=> age
=> ripen, mature
=> antique, antiquate
=> antiquate
=> develop, make grow
=> soften
=> damage
=> ossify
=> acerbate
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> habituate, accustom
=> disorder, disarray
=> discolor
=> color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
=> stain
=> hue
=> uglify
=> untune
=> adjust, set, correct
=> set
=> disqualify, unfit, indispose
=> domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame
=> widen
=> dehydrogenate
=> hydrogenate
=> oxygenize, oxygenise
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten up, lighten
=> blur, blear
=> obscure, bedim, overcloud
=> obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
=> cook
=> slenderize, slenderise
=> crack
=> dissolve, dismiss
=> end, terminate
=> demist, defog
=> condense, concentrate, contract
=> cool, chill, cool down
=> heat, heat up
=> warm
=> boil
=> freeze
=> blister
=> switch, change over, shift
=> transpose
=> convert, change over
=> transform
=> transform
=> transform
=> transmute
=> transform, transmute, transubstantiate
=> ash
=> translate, transform
=> reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify
=> convert
=> Islamize, Islamise
=> turn back, invert, reverse
=> invert
=> customize, customise
=> personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise
=> depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify
=> sharpen
=> flatten, drop
=> disintegrate
=> magnetize, magnetise
=> demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss
=> simplify
=> complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
=> refine
=> complicate, perplex
=> supercharge, pressurize, pressurise
=> centralize, centralise, concentrate
=> decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise
=> socialize, socialise
=> fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set
=> internationalize, internationalise
=> communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> bestialize, bestialise
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> Frenchify
=> civilize, civilise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> denationalize, denationalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> even, even out
=> equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate
=> stiffen
=> loosen, loose
=> tighten, fasten
=> transitivize, transitivise
=> detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise
=> thicken, inspissate
=> full
=> diversify
=> deaden
=> check, retard, delay
=> decrease, lessen, minify
=> liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise
=> solvate
=> dissolve
=> validate
=> invalidate, void, vitiate
=> empty
=> fill, fill up, make full
=> saturate
=> clot, coagulate
=> louden
=> normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise
=> morph
=> neutralize, neutralise
=> commercialize, commercialise, market
=> purify, purge, sanctify
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> automatize, automatise, automate
=> automatize, automatise
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> harmonize, harmonise, chord
=> polarize, polarise
=> glorify
=> contaminate
=> devalue
=> insulate
=> calcify
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> emulsify
=> demulsify
=> decarboxylate
=> nazify
=> fertilize, fecundate, fertilise
=> clarify
=> embrittle
=> mark
=> barb
=> nick
=> disable, disenable, incapacitate
=> enable
=> de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress
=> tender, tenderize, tenderise
=> charge
=> sweeten
=> iodinate
=> ionate
=> archaize, archaise
=> inform
=> officialize, officialise
=> occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise
=> orientalize, orientalise
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> achromatize, achromatise
=> parallel, collimate
=> camp
=> classicize, classicise
=> conventionalize, conventionalise
=> decimalize, decimalise
=> dizzy
=> poison, envenom
=> exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify
=> glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise
=> introvert
=> laicize, laicise
=> politicize, politicise
=> radicalize
=> proof
=> romanticize, romanticise
=> rusticate
=> sauce
=> shallow, shoal
=> tense
=> steepen
=> scramble
=> unscramble
=> unsex
=> vitrify
=> pall
=> saponify
=> extend, expand
=> suspend, set aside
=> muddy
=> transform
=> lift, raise, elevate
=> harshen
=> dinge
=> demonize, demonise
=> devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise
=> etherealize, etherialise
=> immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise
=> animize, animise, animate
=> clear
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> rarefy, sublimate, subtilize
=> volatilize, volatilise
=> uniformize, uniformise
=> symmetrize, symmetrise
=> immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise
=> denature
=> denature
=> denature
=> sanitize, sanitise
=> verbify
=> shift
=> sputter
=> draw
=> make
=> dope
=> prostrate
=> excite
=> excite, energize, energise
=> shake
=> outmode
=> spice, spice up
=> shorten
=> think
=> make
=> deflate
=> inflate
=> reflate
=> digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise, effeminize, erreminise, womanize
=> masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise
=> masculinize
=> disharmonize, dissonate
=> sexualize, sexualise
=> schematize, schematise
=> patent
=> constitutionalize, constitutionalise
=> rationalize, rationalise
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> rarefy
=> paganize, paganise
=> incandesce
=> deaminate, deaminize
=> angulate
=> circularize
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> depolarize, depolarise
=> intensify
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> legitimate
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> opacify
=> opsonize
=> militarize, militarise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> recommend
=> sentimentalize, sentimentalise
=> solemnize, solemnise
=> territorialize, territorialise
=> transaminate
=> transfigure, glorify, spiritualize
=> unsanctify
=> vesiculate
=> visualize, visualise
=> variegate
=> ventilate
=> vivify
=> vulgarise, vulgarize
=> supple
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> smut
=> still
=> weaponize
=> eroticize, sex up
=> piggyback
=> confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate
=> confuse
=> tone down, moderate, tame
=> obfuscate
=> synchronize, synchronise
=> mince, soften, moderate
=> militarize, militarise
=> break down, crush
=> fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
=> touch, disturb
=> dull
=> dull, blunt
=> sharpen
=> coarsen
=> loosen
=> untie, undo, loosen
=> barb
=> string
=> straighten, straighten out
=> bring
=> mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate
=> charge
=> put
=> clean, make clean
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> lower, depress
=> deform
=> break, break up
=> alter
=> decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
=> humanize, humanise
=> humble
=> estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect
=> right
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> deodorize, deodorise, deodourise
=> develop
=> blur
=> blind
=> change intensity
=> change taste
=> capture
=> lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring
=> restore, reinstate, reestablish
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> right, compensate, redress, correct
=> democratize, democratise
=> neutralize
=> corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
=> relax, loosen
=> unite, unify
=> flocculate
=> turn
=> make possible
=> cohere
Sense 2
dry, dry out
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb dry
Sense 1
dry, dry out
=> change, alter, modify
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Sense 2
dry, dry out
=> change
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Grep of verb dry
blow-dry
drip-dry
dry
dry-dock
dry-nurse
dry-rot
dry clean
dry out
dry up
drydock
freeze-dry
rough-dry
run dry
spin-dry
spray-dry
tumble dry
Antonyms of adj dry
16 senses of dry
Sense 1
dry (vs. wet)
wet (vs. dry)
=> bedewed, dewy
=> besprent, sprinkled
=> boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
=> clammy, dank
=> damp, dampish, moist
=> drenched, saturated, soaked, soaking, sodden, sopping, soppy
=> dripping
=> drippy, drizzly
=> dunked, soused
=> humid
=> misty
=> muggy, steamy, sticky
=> perspiring, sweating, sweaty
=> reeking, dripping, watery
=> rheumy
=> sloppy
=> showery, rainy
=> steaming, steamy
=> sticky
=> tacky
=> undried
=> washed
=> watery
Sense 2
dry, ironic, ironical, wry
INDIRECT (VIA humorous) -> humorless, humourless, unhumorous
Sense 3
dry (vs. wet)
wet (vs. dry)
Sense 4
dry (vs. wet)
wet (vs. dry)
Sense 5
dry (vs. wet)
wet (vs. dry), lactating
=> fresh
Sense 6
dry (vs. sweet)
sweet (vs. dry)
Sense 7
dry (vs. phlegmy)
phlegmy (vs. dry)
=> loose
Sense 8
dry
INDIRECT (VIA tearless) -> tearful
Sense 9
dry, juiceless
INDIRECT (VIA unstimulating) -> stimulating
Sense 10
dry
INDIRECT (VIA gaseous, solid) -> liquid
INDIRECT (VIA solid, liquid) -> gaseous
Sense 11
dry
INDIRECT (VIA unproductive) -> productive
Sense 12
dry
INDIRECT (VIA plain) -> fancy
Sense 13
dry
INDIRECT (VIA plain) -> fancy
Sense 14
dry
INDIRECT (VIA alcoholic) -> nonalcoholic
Sense 15
dry
INDIRECT (VIA unemotional) -> emotional
Sense 16
dry, teetotal
INDIRECT (VIA sober) -> intoxicated, drunk, inebriated
Similarity of adj dry
16 senses of dry
Sense 1
dry (vs. wet)
=> adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked
=> air-dried
=> air-dry
=> arid, waterless
=> bone-dry(prenominal), bone dry(predicate)
=> desiccated, dried-out
=> dried
=> dried-up
=> dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered
=> dry-shod
=> kiln-dried
=> rainless
=> semiarid
=> semi-dry
=> thirsty
Sense 2
dry, ironic, ironical, wry
=> humorous (vs. humorless), humourous
Sense 3
dry (vs. wet)
Sense 4
dry (vs. wet)
Sense 5
dry (vs. wet)
=> milkless
Sense 6
dry (vs. sweet)
=> brut
=> medium-dry
=> sec, unsweet
Also See> sour#2; sugarless#1, nonsweet#1
Sense 7
dry (vs. phlegmy)
Sense 8
dry
=> tearless (vs. tearful), dry-eyed
Sense 9
dry, juiceless
=> unstimulating (vs. stimulating), unexciting
Sense 10
dry
=> solid (vs. liquid)(vs. gaseous)
Sense 11
dry
=> unproductive (vs. productive)
Sense 12
dry
=> plain (vs. fancy)
Sense 13
dry
=> plain (vs. fancy)
Sense 14
dry
=> alcoholic (vs. nonalcoholic)
Sense 15
dry
=> unemotional (vs. emotional)
Sense 16
dry, teetotal
=> sober (vs. intoxicated)
Pertainyms of adj dry
Attributes of adj dry
1 of 16 senses of dry
Sense 1
dry (vs. wet)
=> wetness
Domain of adj dry
Domain Terms of adj dry
Familiarity of adj dry
dry used as an adjective is familiar (polysemy count =16)
Grep of adj dry
air-dry
bone-dry
bone dry
cut-and-dry
drip-dry
dry
dry-cleaned
dry-eyed
dry-shod
high-and-dry
medium-dry
semi-dry
sundry
tawdry
Grep of adv dry
dryly
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