drier
1 Americanadjective
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of drier
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English dreyere (as surname). See dry, -er 1
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India's monsoon is running well below average, while hotter and drier conditions are forecast from Central America and the Caribbean to parts of South America, South Asia, the Southwest Pacific, Europe and Africa.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Even though El Niño brings hotter and drier conditions to the north, researchers haven’t conclusively found it leads to larger or more frequent fires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
In fact, by 2070, our summers could be up to 60% drier and 1-6C warmer compared to 1990.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
We now deal with wildfire smoke every year, in a “season” that stretches longer and longer each year thanks to warmer and drier conditions.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
They came to drier soil with strangler figs splitting the rocks.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
The L.A. sanitation districts have supported laws that would help reduce the amount of plastic getting into our waste at the source, including those that would require filters in washing machines and driers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Gas water heaters, furnaces and driers also produce emissions and could leak methane as well, Lebel says.
From Scientific American ● May 3, 2023
Sales of TCL TVs, Dyson hair driers and Midea refrigerators doubled, JD.com said.
From Reuters ● Nov. 12, 2022
Dyson is moving beyond vacuum cleaners and hand driers and will try to develop robots capable of helping with household chores.
From BBC ● May 25, 2022
I have seen some that cost $20,000 and contained all the thousand appliances we live by—dishwashers, automatic clothes washers and driers, refrigerators and deep freezes.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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