dried-up

Questions about dried-up

What does dried-up mean?

dried-up means "(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dried-up?

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

What is another word for dried-up?

Close synonyms include sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered. 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-up a common word?

dried-up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.