Definitions for drier

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drier dri·er

Spelling: [drahy-er]

IPA: /ˈdraɪ ər/

Drier is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in drier (deirr).

Definitions for drier

noun

1. a person or thing that dries.
2. any substance added to paints, varnishes, printing inks, etc., to make them dry quickly.
3. dryer (def 1).
4. a prohibitionist.
5. a dry place, area, or region.

Idioms

1. not dry behind the ears, immature; unsophisticated:

adjective

1. comparative of dry.
2. free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet:
3. having or characterized by little or no rain:
4. characterized by absence, deficiency, or failure of natural or ordinary moisture.
5. not under, in, or on water:
6. not now containing or yielding water or other liquid; depleted or empty of liquid:
7. not yielding milk:
8. free from tears:
9. drained or evaporated away:
10. desiring drink; thirsty:
11. causing thirst:
12. served or eaten without butter, jam, etc.:
13. (of cooked food) lacking enough moisture or juice to be satisfying or succulent.
14. (of bread and bakery products) stale.
15. of or relating to nonliquid substances or commodities:
16. (of wines) not sweet.
17. made with dry vermouth: made with relatively little dry vermouth:
18. characterized by or favoring prohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors for use in beverages:
19. (of British biscuits) not sweet.
20. plain; bald; unadorned:
21. dull; uninteresting:
22. expressed in a straight-faced, matter-of-fact way:
23. indifferent; cold; unemotional:
24. unproductive:
25. (of lumber) fully seasoned.
26. Building Trades. (of masonry construction) built without fresh mortar or cement. (of a wall, ceiling, etc., in an interior) finished without the use of fresh plaster.
27. Ceramics. unglazed. insufficiently glazed.
28. Art. hard and formal in outline, or lacking mellowness and warmth in color.

Verb phrases

1. dry out, to make or become completely dry. to undergo or cause to undergo detoxification from consumption of excessive amounts of alcohol.
2. dry up, to make or become completely dry. to cease to exist; evaporate. Informal. to stop talking. (in acting) to forget one's lines or part.

verb (used with object)

1. to make dry; free from moisture:

verb (used without object)

1. to become dry; lose moisture.

Origin of drier

1300-50; Middle English dreyere (as surname). See dry, -er¹

Examples for drier

In drier and poorer soils its resistance is perhaps not sufficient.

Certain it is that fruit grown in sod is drier and less crisp and juicy.

Lane repeated in a drier, more severe tone than he had used before.

Extra dry, for example, is actually sweeter than brut, which is drier than demi-sec, which is somewhat sweet.

Just when I think Jemaine is the dry cute one, Bret does something even cuter and drier.

They fetch you drier firewood, and they bring you flowers, wherever they get them.

It is used as a medium in which to grind colors and as a drier.

“Western Carson County [where the Smiths live] is one of the drier spots in the state,” he says.

We got out of the buggy to stand under some trees where 'twas drier.

In our judgment the drier varieties are greatly to be preferred.