Scrabble & Words with friends points
- dry is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
- dry is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
- dry is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 6
Definition of dry
- become dry or drier (verb)
Examples
- The laundry dries in the sun
Synonyms
- dry out
- a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages (noun)
Synonyms
- prohibitionist
- lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless (adjective)
Examples
- a dry book
- a dry lecture filled with trivial details
Synonyms
- juiceless
- humorously sarcastic or mocking (adjective)
Examples
- dry humor
Synonyms
- ironic
- ironical
- wry
- remove the moisture from and make dry (verb)
Examples
- dry clothes
- dry hair
Synonyms
- dry out
- practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages (adjective)
Examples
- he's been dry for ten years
Synonyms
- teetotal
- free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet (adjective)
Examples
- dry land
- dry clothes
- a dry climate
- dry splintery boards
- a dry river bed
- the paint is dry
- having a large proportion of strong liquor (adjective)
Examples
- a very dry martini is almost straight gin
- having no adornment or coloration (adjective)
Examples
- dry facts
- rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner
- lacking warmth or emotional involvement (adjective)
Examples
- a dry greeting
- a dry reading of the lines
- a dry critique
- not producing milk (adjective)
Examples
- a dry cow
- not shedding tears (adjective)
Examples
- dry sobs
- with dry eyes
- (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish (adjective)
Examples
- dry toast
- dry meat
- (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation (adjective)
Examples
- a dry white burgundy
- a dry Bordeaux
- unproductive especially of the expected results (adjective)
Examples
- a dry run
- a mind dry of new ideas
- used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones (adjective)
Examples
- dry weight
- lacking moisture or volatile components ()
Examples
- dry paint
- opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages ()
Examples
- the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers
- a dry state
- without a mucous or watery discharge ()
Examples
- a dry cough
- that rare thing in the wintertime; a small child with a dry nose
See definition of dry in Merriam Webster