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Aridities

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ar⋅id

  [ar-id]
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–adjective
1. being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
2. barren or unproductive because of lack of moisture: arid farmland.
3. lacking interest or imaginativeness; sterile; jejune: an arid treatment of an exciting topic.
Origin:
1645–55; (< F) < L āridus, equiv. to ār(ēre) to be dry + -idus -id 4 ; cf. ash 1

Related forms:
a⋅rid⋅i⋅ty  [uh-rid-i-tee] , ar⋅id⋅ness, noun
ar⋅id⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. See dry. 3. tedious, dreary, vapid, uninspired, uninspiring.
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Word Origin & History

arid 
1652, "dry, parched," from L. aridus, from arere "to be dry," from PIE base *as- "to burn, glow" (see ardent). Figurative sense of "uninteresting" is from 1827.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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