SEMIARID Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

semiarid

adjective

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as in arid

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Recent Examples of semiarid One reason is the technical challenge of growing trees in a semiarid city built for cars. — Sam Bloch august 8, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025 These lizards can be found in arid and semiarid habitats in open areas with sparse plant cover. — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 The semiarid region along the border with Mexico usually receives about 25 inches annually. — John Yoon, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 In the Sahel region, a semiarid belt of land stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, temperatures are expected to rise 1 1/2 times faster than the global average, according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. — Saskia Houttuin, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for semiarid

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For starters, Lanai has more Cook pine trees than palms, and looks almost arid in many places, with red dirt roads and scrubby brush.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026
Water Sources Swimming pools, landscaping ponds, and similar bodies of water can act as an attractant for snakes, especially in more arid areas, says Mackessy.

— Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of arid

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Scott and Stauring founded the humanitarian group iACT largely to respond to the crisis in Darfur, a semi-desert plateau in western Sudan that has known nothing but war this century.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
The damage was clearest in wealthier, non-desert regions due to rapid land conversion.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of desert

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There are many routes that can take you east from the 395 and deep into the parched heart of these landscapes, but there is one route that stands above the rest.

— Josh Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
After a few parched years Arizona was bailed out by the federal government, which built a reservoir so the people of the Salt River Valley would never again experience privation.

— Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of parched

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Finding the new forms The findings reveal that certain materials capable of transforming clean tech may have been sitting on dusty digital shelves since the 1970s.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
Instead, they will be anchored to the dusty desert floor — in Joshua Tree.

— Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of dusty

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The experience of eating it is even more shocking … the electric crunch of passionfruit seeds giving way to exploding citrus vesicles, glimmering like wayward teardrop gems … and … was that a dehydrated banana?

— Cooking Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
The masks are made from hydrogel, which, Dixneuf says, is particularly well-suited for dehydrated, puffy, and tired eyes.

— Jenny Berg, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025

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