dry

Change speaker

You're listening to Joanna
She has an American accent.

NGSL Rank: 1132
dry
drʌɪ Listen
Meanings
adjective
  • free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist.
    E.g. the jacket kept me warm and dry
  • (of information, writing, etc.) dully factual.
    E.g. the dry facts of the matter
  • (of a joke or sense of humour) subtle and expressed in a matter-of-fact way.
    E.g. he delighted his friends with a dry, covert sense of humour
  • prohibiting the sale or consumption of alcoholic drink.
    E.g. the country is strictly dry, in accordance with Islamic law
  • (of an alcoholic drink) not sweet.
    E.g. a dry, medium-bodied red wine
  • relating to political ‘dries’; rigidly monetarist.
verb
  • become dry.
    E.g. allow 24 hours for the paint to dry
  • forget one's lines.
    E.g. a colleague of mine once dried in the middle of a scene
noun
  • the process or an instance of drying.
  • a dry or covered place.
  • a Conservative politician (especially in the 1980s) in favour of strict monetarist policies.
  • a person in favour of the prohibition of alcohol.
    E.g. evangelical dries had seen to it that the nearest bottle of whiskey was miles away

Practise saying this word

dry
Joanna
YouReset