Synonyms: dry, prohibitionist
Definition: a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
Similar words: reformer, reformist, meliorist, social reformer, crusader
Definition: a disputant who advocates reform
Definition: remove the moisture from and make dry
Usage: dry clothes; dry hair
Similar words: alter, change, modify
Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Definition: become dry or drier
Usage: The laundry dries in the sun
Similar words: change
Definition: undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
Usage: She changed completely as she grew older; The weather changed last night
Definition: practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages
Usage: he's been dry for ten years; no thank you; I happen to be teetotal
Similar words: sober
Definition: not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
Synonyms: dry
Definition: lacking warmth or emotional involvement
Usage: a dry greeting; a dry reading of the lines; a dry critique
Similar words: unemotional
Definition: unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion
Synonyms: dry
Definition: having a large proportion of strong liquor
Usage: a very dry martini is almost straight gin
Synonyms: dry, wry, ironic, ironical
Definition: humorously sarcastic or mocking
Usage: dry humor; an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely; an ironic novel; an ironical smile; with a wry Scottish wit
Similar words: humorous, humourous
Definition: full of or characterized by humor
Usage: humorous stories; humorous cartoons; in a humorous vein
Synonyms: dry
Definition: (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish
Usage: dry toast; dry meat
Similar words: plain
Definition: not elaborate or elaborated; simple
Usage: plain food; stuck to the plain facts; a plain blue suit; a plain rectangular brick building
Synonyms: dry
Definition: having no adornment or coloration
Usage: dry facts; rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner
Similar words: plain
Definition: not elaborate or elaborated; simple
Usage: plain food; stuck to the plain facts; a plain blue suit; a plain rectangular brick building
Synonyms: dry
Definition: unproductive especially of the expected results
Usage: a dry run; a mind dry of new ideas
Similar words: unproductive
Definition: not producing or capable of producing
Usage: elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries
Synonyms: dry
Definition: used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones
Usage: dry weight
Similar words: solid
Definition: of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous
Usage: ice is water in the solid state
Definition: lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless
Usage: 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- John Mason Brown
Similar words: unexciting, unstimulating
Definition: not stimulating
Synonyms: dry
Definition: (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation
Usage: a dry white burgundy; a dry Bordeaux
Similar words: brut
Definition: (of champagne) extremely dry
Similar words: medium-dry
Definition: of a wine that is dry but not extremely dry
Definition: (of champagne) moderately dry
Synonyms: dry
Definition: not shedding tears
Usage: dry sobs; with dry eyes
Synonyms: dry
Definition: free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet
Usage: dry land; dry clothes; a dry climate; dry splintery boards; a dry river bed; the paint is dry
Similar words: adust, baked, sunbaked, parched, scorched
Definition: dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
Usage: a vast desert all adust; land lying baked in the heat; parched soil; the earth was scorched and bare; sunbaked salt flats
Similar words: air-dried
Definition: made dry by contact with unheated air
Similar words: air-dry
Definition: not giving off moisture on exposure to the air
Similar words: arid, waterless
Definition: lacking sufficient water or rainfall
Usage: an arid climate; a waterless well; miles of waterless country to cross
Similar words: bone dry, bone-dry
Definition: without a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone
Usage: bone-dry leaves are a fire hazard; a drier to get the clothes bone dry
Similar words: dried-out, desiccated
Definition: thoroughly dried out
Usage: old boxes of desiccated Cuban cigars; dried-out boards beginning to split
Similar words: dried
Definition: not still wet
Usage: the ink has dried; a face marked with dried tears
Similar words: dried-up
Definition: depleted of water
Usage: a dried-up water hole
Similar words: dried-up, sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled, withered
Definition: (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
Usage: dried-up grass; the desert was edged with sere vegetation; shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings; withered vines
Similar words: dry-shod
Definition: having or keeping the feet or shoes dry
Usage: a land bridge over which man and beasts could have crossed dry-shod
Similar words: kiln-dried
Definition: dried in a kiln
Similar words: rainless
Definition: lacking rain
Usage: a rainless month; rainless skies
Similar words: semiarid
Definition: somewhat arid
Usage: a semiarid region with little annual rainfall
Similar words: semi-dry
Definition: somewhat dry
Usage: swabbing left the deck semi-dry but still slippery
Similar words: thirsty
Definition: needing moisture
Usage: thirsty fields under a rainless sky
Synonyms: dry
Definition: not producing milk
Usage: a dry cow