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Of a season or climate: Free from or deficient in rain; having scanty rainfall; not rainy.
Characterized by drought; deficient in rainfall.
Dry, without moisture, parched, withered. of the ground or climate. Hence, barren, bare.
literal. Of climate: Extremely dry or rainless.