drydry /draɪ/ adjective (drier or dryer, driest or dryest) 1 
when there is no water in something► dry
when there is no water in something► dry something that is dry has no water in it or on it: Do you have a dry towel? This one is soaked. The soil was dry and cracked.
► dehydrated if you are dehydrated, you do not have enough water in your body: After four days in the desert, he was severely dehydrated.
► bone dry also dry as a bone (informal) something that is bone dry is completely dry: I can walk through snow and puddles in these boots, and my feet stay bone dry. There had been no rain for weeks, and the ground was dry as a bone.
ANTONYMS ➔ see wet2 when the weather is dry► dry if the weather is dry, there is no rain: Tomorrow should be dry and sunny. We've had a three-week dry spell that is hurting the crops. ➔ If you want to talk about a long period of dry weather when there is not enough rain, use the noun drought: The drought has lasted for two years.
► arid an area of a country that is arid gets very little rain and is very dry: The cactus grows in the arid regions of the Southwest.
► parched soil that is parched is extremely dry. Parched is used especially in literature and news reports: Each night they prayed for rain to come and soak the parched earth.
ANTONYMS ➔ see rainy ➔ see Describing Places