Synonyms for aridity
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : ar-id |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈær ɪd |
Top 10 synonyms for aridity Other synonyms for the word aridity
- abjection
- altitude
- aridity
- aridness
- asepticism
- atmospheric conditions
- barrenness
- beggary
- blandness
- bleakness
- boredom
- characteristic weather
- clime
- colorlessness
- commonplaceness
- conditions
- dearth
- deficiency
- dehydration
- depletion
- desiccation
- destitution
- distress
- drabness
- dreariness
- drought
- dry spell
- dryness
- dullness
- emptiness
- exiguity
- familiarity
- flatness
- flavorlessness
- gentility
- humidity
- hunger
- impecuniosity
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- ineffectiveness
- ineffectuality
- innocuousness
- insipidity
- insipidness
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- jejuneness
- keenness
- lack
- latitude
- lifelessness
- longing
- lust
- meagerness
- meteorologic conditions
- meteorological character
- mildness
- monotomy
- necessitousness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- parchedness
- pass
- passion
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- poverty
- privation
- rainlessness
- reduction
- routine
- sameness
- scantiness
- scarcity
- shortage
- slowness
- staleness
- starvation
- sterileness
- sterility
- stodginess
- straits
- tediousness
- tedium
- temperature
- thirstiness
- underdevelopment
- uninterestingness
- unproductiveness
- unprofitableness
- uselessness
- vacancy
- vainness
- vanity
- vapidity
- vapidness
- want
- washiness
- wateriness
- weariness
- yearning
- yen
Définition of aridity
Origin :- 1590s, from Middle French aridité or directly from Latin ariditatem (nominative ariditas) "dryness," from aridus (see arid). The Latin word was used figuratively of unadorned styles as well as stingy men.
- As in poverty : noun want; extreme need, often financial
- As in thirst : noun craving (especially for liquid)
- As in barrenness : noun desolateness
- As in dullness : noun quality of being boring
- As in meagerness : noun lack
- As in fruitlessness : noun futility
- As in impecuniosity : noun poverty
- As in impecuniousness : noun poverty
- As in impoverishment : noun poverty
- As in innocuousness : noun insipidity
- As in insipidity : noun dullness
- As in insipidness : noun insipidity
- As in jejuneness : noun dullness
- As in lifelessness : noun dullness
- As in neediness : noun poverty
- As in pennilessness : noun poverty
- As in penuriousness : noun poverty
- As in climate : noun weather of region
- As in sterileness : noun dullness
- As in stodginess : noun dullness
- As in vapidity : noun dullness
- As in vapidness : noun dullness
- As in drought : noun dryness; shortage of supply
- We had an uncomfortable experience because of the excessive heat and aridity.
- Extract from : « A Canyon Voyage » by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
- That common thinness and aridity, too, of the Unitarian temper had weighed with him.
- Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- There is aridity, there is wildness, and yet there is a certain monotony.
- Extract from : « The Sea » by Jules Michelet
- It is aridity, too, that gives their particular character to the Argentine Andes.
- Extract from : « The Argentine Republic » by Pierre Denis
- That great craving for cold and wet is a sign of the heat and aridity that is within.
- Extract from : « Monsieur de Pourceaugnac » by Molire
- But usually it is merely the problem of aridity; which is only a challenge to enterprise.
- Extract from : « The Challenge of the Country » by George Walter Fiske
- He might have learnt from his own experience the aridity of a life which is barren of love.
- Extract from : « Robert Browning » by Edward Dowden
- The aridity of the hills of Sérignan is unfavourable to them.
- Extract from : « Social Life in the Insect World » by J. H. Fabre
- That common thinness and aridity too of the Unitarian temper had weighed with him.
- Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- Except for its aridity, the climate is kind to the small farmer: there is no long inactivity forced upon him by a cold winter.
- Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 » by Various
Antonyms for aridity
- abundance
- action
- adequacy
- advantage
- affluence
- aversion
- benefit
- blessing
- comfort
- disgust
- dislike
- distaste
- ease
- enough
- excess
- excitement
- fecundity
- fertility
- fill
- fruitfulness
- hate
- hatred
- indifference
- interest
- liveliness
- lot
- luxury
- monsoon
- pleasure
- plenty
- profit
- repulsion
- richness
- satisfaction
- sufficiency
- surplus
- wealth
- wetness
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