dry as dust

Adjective

Meaning

dry as dust (not comparable)

(simile) Very dull or boring.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

dry-as-dust

Synonyms

arid thirsty waterless juiceless sapless torrefied cottonmouth bone dry droughty moistureless doctrinarian scholastical quodlibetical

Antonyms

moorish soupy dewy comedienne WET explosive
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Examples

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences. George Will

I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Close letter words and terms

dry as a dead dingo's donger dry as a dead dingos's donger dry as a wooden god dry as snuff dry bar dry battery