arid

• (s) lacking sufficient water or rainfall
  • an arid climate
  • a waterless well
  • miles of waterless country to cross
  waterless,
• (s) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
  • a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata
  • a desiccate romance
  • "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
  desiccate, desiccated,

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