dried-out

1. 1.

   thoroughly dried out

   “old boxes of desiccated Cuban cigars”

   “dried-out boards beginning to split”

   Synonymsdesiccated

   Similardry

Questions about dried-out

What does dried-out mean?

dried-out means "thoroughly dried out".

How many syllables are in dried-out?

dried-out has 2 syllables: drie-d-out. The stress falls on "drie".

What is another word for dried-out?

Close synonyms include desiccated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dried-out a common word?

dried-out 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.