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WATERLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does waterless mean?
• WATERLESS (adjective)
The adjective WATERLESS has 1 sense:
1. lacking sufficient water or rainfall
Familiarity information: WATERLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking sufficient water or rainfall
Synonyms:
arid; waterless
Context example:
miles of waterless country to cross
Similar:
dry (free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet)
Derivation:
waterlessness (the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water))
Context examples
Kgalagadi, it's also named: the waterless place.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
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