air-dry

1. 1.

   not giving off moisture on exposure to the air

   Similardry

Questions about air-dry

What does air-dry mean?

air-dry means "not giving off moisture on exposure to the air".

How many syllables are in air-dry?

air-dry has 2 syllables: air--dry. The stress falls on "air-".

Is air-dry a common word?

air-dry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.