meaning of arid
1. Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.
2. 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
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