dryer

Meaning of dryer

noun
  1. One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative.
    The sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.
  2. A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion.
  3. An electric hair dryer.
  4. Any other device or substance, household or industrial, designed to remove water or humidity.
  5. A catalyst used to promote the drying of paints and varnishes by oxidative crosslinking.
adjective
  1. Free from or lacking moisture.
    This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?
  2. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, oil, or (farming) milk.
    This well is as dry as that cow.
  3. Built without or lacking mortar.
  4. Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
    Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
  5. Athirst, eager.
  6. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
    Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.
  7. Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
    You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.
  8. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
  9. (somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
  10. (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects.
  11. Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
    never dry fire a bow; dry humping her girlfriend; making a dry run
  12. Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.

Information about dryer

  • The plural form of dryer is: dryers.
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Hyphenation of dryer

dryer

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • dryer is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

dryer synonyms

Meaning drier:

drier

dryer antonyms

Meaning :

wet

Anagrams of dryer

Derry, derry, redry, Ryder, ryder

Words that rhyme with dryer

cryer, scryer, hairdryer, blowdryer, fryer, dairyer, skryer, pryer, spryer, marryer, tryer, wryer

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