Definitions for driest

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driest dri·est

Spelling: [drahy-ist]

IPA: /ˈdraɪ ɪst/

Driest is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 157 anagrams from letters in driest (deirst).

Definitions for driest

noun

1. a prohibitionist.
2. a dry place, area, or region.

Idioms

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

adjective

1. superlative 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 driest

before 900; Middle English drie, Old English drȳge; akin to Dutch droog, German trocken; see drought

Examples for driest

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest place on Earth.

It was the hardest, driest, most metallic sound I ever heard.

It would have been impossible to him to give more than the driest outline of it in that room.

The summer of 1820 was the hottest and driest ever known in this country.

Three years ago, as Texas grappled with its driest year on record, Governor Rick Perry declared a weekend of prayer for rain.

Their habitat is in the hottest and driest parts of the country.

Although they keep their greenness, they act like the driest leaves of autumn.

The following 12 months,” he says, “were the driest on record for the entire state.

Some Oregon towns also recorded their driest year on record in 2013.

The driest they placed to one side to use for bedding later.