Dictionary
ar•id
Pronunciation: (ar'id), [key]—
adj.
1. being without moisture; extremely dry; parched:
arid land; an arid climate.
2. barren or unproductive because of lack of moisture:
arid farmland.
3. lacking interest or imaginativeness; sterile; jejune:
an arid treatment of an exciting topic. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.