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say it: drahy
dry is an adjective, verb and noun meaning "free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet". It carries 19 recorded senses.
opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages
“the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers”
“a dry state”
(of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation
“a dry white burgundy”
“a dry Bordeaux”
without a mucous or watery discharge
“a dry cough”
“that rare thing in the wintertime; a small child with a dry nose”
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”
unproductive especially of the expected results
“a dry run”
“a mind dry of new ideas”
having no adornment or coloration
“dry facts”
“rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner”
having a large proportion of strong liquor
“a very dry martini is almost straight gin”
lacking warmth or emotional involvement
“a dry greeting”
“a dry reading of the lines”
“a dry critique”
a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dry come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.