All dried-up synonyms

adj dried-up

• dusty — filled, covered, or clouded with or as with dust.
• arid — Arid land is so dry that very few plants can grow on it.
• torrid — subject to parching or burning heat, especially of the sun, as a geographical area: the torrid sands of the Sahara.
• parched — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
• barren — A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.
• bare — If a part of your body is bare, it is not covered by any clothing.
• stale — not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
• reticent — disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved.
• aloof — Someone who is aloof is not very friendly and does not like to spend time with other people.
• dour — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
• laconic — using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconic reply.
• impoverished — reduced to poverty.
• drained — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
• sear — to burn or char the surface of: She seared the steak to seal in the juices.
• desert — A desert is a large area of land, usually in a hot region, where there is almost no water, rain, trees, or plants.
• bald — Someone who is bald has little or no hair on the top of their head.
• baked — to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
• sapped — Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.
• desiccant — desiccating or drying
• desiccated — Desiccated things have lost all the moisture that was in them.
• hard — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
• thirsty — feeling or having thirst; craving liquid.
• anhydrous — containing no water, esp no water of crystallization
• athirst — having an eager desire; longing
• rain — water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
• droughty — dry.
• juice — the natural fluid, fluid content, or liquid part that can be extracted from a plant or one of its parts, especially of a fruit: orange juice.
• sapless — without sap; withered; dry: sapless plants.
• waterless — devoid of water; dry.
• antisocial — Someone who is antisocial is unwilling to meet and be friendly with other people.
• close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
• cold — Something that is cold has a very low temperature or a lower temperature than is normal or acceptable.
• curt — If you describe someone as curt, you mean that they speak or reply in a brief and rather rude way.
• distant — far off or apart in space; not near at hand; remote or removed (often followed by from): a distant place; a town three miles distant from here.
• dumb — lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
• mum — silent; not saying a word: to keep mum.
• mute — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
• quiet — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
• reserved — kept in reserve; forming a reserve: a reserve fund; a reserve supply.
• sententious — abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book.
• silent — making no sound; quiet; still: a silent motor.
• sparing — kept in reserve, as for possible use: a spare part.
• speechless — temporarily deprived of speech by strong emotion, physical weakness, exhaustion, etc.: speechless with alarm.
• tight-lipped — speaking very little; taciturn; close-mouthed.
• withdrawn — past participle of withdraw.
• brooding — Brooding is used to describe an atmosphere or feeling that makes you feel anxious or slightly afraid.
• unexpressive — not expressive; lacking in expression of meaning, feeling, etc.: a bland and unexpressive person.
• unforthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
• incommunicative — not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.