arid

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Launchpad is like an arid desert when it comes to support.

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lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"

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adjective

lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"

adjective

lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo

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Core meanings and parts of speech for arid.

adjective

lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"

adjective

Example sentences

Launchpad is like an arid desert when it comes to support.

How is "water intensive farming in arid areas" not a root cause?

30C in such an arid climate is actually quite nice - as long as you have enough water with you.

We had a nice arid climate front yard with rocks and plants that required zero water and maintenance.

Climate ranges from scorching heat and arid desert to tropical rain forests.

It wouldn't surprise me if much of the virgin soil in Afghanistan is alkaline, soil in arid areas often is.

A controversial issue here is sale of water from the upper Midwest to arid places in the Great Plains or even the Southwest through pipelines.

We have a culture where you lose value if you adopt arid climate landscape when people expect grass and flowers and that's what everything around you looks like.

The direct CO2 effect on vegetation should be most clearly expressed in warm, arid environments where water is the dominant limit to vegetation growth.

Sure, the landscape is semi-arid, but the surrounding mountains are very nice, and you have lots of good skiing with dry snow you aren't getting in California; that is very good powder.

From the arid depths of Mali to the mountains of Tajikistan to the hustle and bustle of Mumbai to the slums of Manila, access to computers and to the internet will be nearly universal.