desiccated

[des-i-key-tid]

adjective

1. dehydrated or powdered.

   desiccated coconut.

desiccated

/ ˈdɛsɪˌkeɪtɪd /

adjective

1. dehydrated and powdered

   desiccated coconut

2. lacking in spirit or animation

Other Word Forms

• undesiccated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of desiccated¹

First recorded in 1670–80; desiccate + -ed ²

Example Sentences

A moral universe without purgatory would be a thin, desiccated place: metaphysical reality flattened to nothing more than God and the individual soul that must, down the wearisome road, face some grim and final judgment.

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He was “working with the new FDA,” he said in a LinkedIn post in November, to remove from the market desiccated thyroid extracts, a product critical to another company led by Tang, American Laboratories Holdings.

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His latest book’s rather desiccated title led me to believe it would mount some dry defense of religion in general.

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Oregon’s Lake Abert has repeatedly dried up, and biologists have found that when it’s desiccated, more phalaropes fly farther south to Mono Lake.

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Prof Rein's research finds that, after ten consecutive days of very dry weather, vegetation becomes so desiccated across wide areas that the likelihood of multiple fires igniting simultaneously rises sharply.

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Related Words

• arid 
• bare 
• barren 
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• dusty 
• parched 
• stale 
• torrid