Synonyms of sere

sere

adjective

ˈsir 

variants also sear

as in dry

marked by little or no precipitation or humidity

a sere region that can't support agriculture

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dry
• thirsty
• arid
• droughty
• desert
• waterless
• desertic
• baked
• sunbaked
• parched
• dehydrated
• bone-dry
• air-dry
• desertlike
• rainless
• hyperarid
• ultradry
• xerothermic

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• moist
• wet
• damp
• humid
• dank
• saturated
• sodden
• soggy
• dripping
• soaked
• bathed
• washed
• watered
• drenched
• waterlogged
• watery
• soaking
• flooded
• drowned
• awash
• submerged
• sopping
• soused
• soppy
• hydrated
• doused
• inundated
• overflowed
• deluged
• swamped

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sere

Klinger recommends to steam it before marinating to reduce bitterness, and then grill, pan-sear, or crumble it into recipes. — Jillian Kubala, Health, 12 Dec. 2025

Her sister’s sere hair went among the grasses; her head was full of the Child. — Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025

But the western region accounts for a small fraction of the land, which unfolds east from the Cascades in expanses of sere high desert, lush pasture and thick forest. — Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023

Here was a tense dialectic that energized his entire career—a tugging between a world of civic engagement, where all pronouncements are dubious, and a sere realm of a lovely, but unsustainable, disembodiment. — Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022

Early hominids may have stood up and gotten naked as a way to cope with heat stress on the sere African savanna. — Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019

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