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Is dry a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word dry is a Scrabble US word. The word dry is worth 7 points in Scrabble:
D2R1Y4
Is dry a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word dry is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:
D2R1Y4
Is dry a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word dry is a Words With Friends word. The word dry is worth 6 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
D2R1Y3
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You can make 1 words from dry according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 3 letters words made out of dry
dry rdy dyr ydr ryd yrd
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Definitions and meaning of dry
dry
Alternative forms
drie(obsolete)
Etymology
Adjective and noun from Middle Englishdrye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old Englishdrȳġe(“dry; parched, withered”), from Proto-West Germanic*drūgī, *draugī, from Proto-Germanic*drūgiz, *draugiz(“dry, hard”), from Proto-Indo-European*dʰerǵʰ-(“to strengthen; become hard”), from *dʰer-(“to hold, support”).
Verb from Middle Englishdrien, from Old Englishdrȳġan(“to dry”), from Proto-West Germanic*drūgijan, from Proto-Germanic*drūgiz(“hard, desiccated, dry”), from Proto-Indo-European*dʰerǵʰ-(“strong, hard, solid”).
Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
Hyponym:non-milch
(masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
(chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
(figurative) Athirst, eager.
Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
(law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
(wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
(humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
Lacking interest, boring.
(poker)Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
(fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
(aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
(sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
(of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
(Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
Synonyms
(free from liquid or moisture):See Thesaurus:dry
Antonyms
(antonym(s) of "free from liquid or moisture"):See Thesaurus:wet
(antonym(s) of "abstinent from or banning alcohol"):wet
(antonym(s) of "not using afterburners or water injection"):wet
(antonym(s) of "of a scientist or lab: doing computation"):wet
Derived terms
Descendants
Sranan Tongo: drei
Translations
Noun
dry (pluraldrysordries)
The process by which something is dried.
(US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
c. 1952-1996, Noah S. Sweat, quoted in 1996
The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.
An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
(chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
(Australia) An area of waterless country.
Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
(British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
Antonym:wet
Verb
dry (third-person singular simple presentdries, present participledrying, simple past and past participledried)
(intransitive) To lose moisture.
(transitive) To remove moisture from.
(transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
(intransitive, informal) For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
See also
desiccant
desiccate
desiccation
Anagrams
YRD
Albanian
Alternative forms
dryn
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian*drūna, from the same root as dru. Cognate to Sanskritद्रुणा(druṇā, “bow”), Persianدرونه(“rainbow”).
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From English dry "lacking interest, boring" or by some interpretation of wet "to go clubbing"?”)
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /t͡ʃɹaːi̯⁵⁵/
Adjective
dry(Hong Kong Cantonese)
(of a person) lacking sex or romance
Middle English
Adjective
dry
Alternative form of drye
Old English
Etymology
Borrowed from a Brythonic language, from Proto-Brythonic*drüw, from Proto-Celtic*druwits(“druid”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /dryː/
Noun
drȳm (nominative pluraldrȳas)
wizard, sorcerer
late 10th century, Ælfric, "Passion of St. Julian and his wife Basilissa"
Hīe woldon forbærnan þone drȳ. ― They wanted to burn the wizard. (Ælfric’s Homilies, volume 1.)