waterless
Lacking any moisture
Waterless means lacking water or not requiring water.
A waterless desert has no sources of water.
Waterless hand sanitizer works without rinsing.
A waterless urinal uses no water for flushing.
The word describes both natural absence and designed alternatives: waterless car wash, waterless cooking.
Severe food shortage
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- dust bowlErosion-ravaged drought zone
- crop failureWhen fields yield nothing
- desertificationLand becoming barren, infertile
dry spell · rainless · irrigation · rationing · reservoir · well · groundwater · cistern
To leave behind completely
- parchedExtremely dry or thirsty
- barrenUnable to produce
- scorchedBurned on surface
- dustyCoated with fine particles
sunbaked · outback · badlands · steppe · savanna · dryland · xerophyte · cactus
Thoroughly dehydrated
- driedStripped of moisture
- shriveledContracted from moisture loss
- witheredDried and shrunken
- parchedExtremely dry or thirsty
anhydrous · freeze-dried · evaporated · concentrated · powdered · jerky · biltong · raisins
Unable to produce
- wastelandUninhabitable barren region
- bleakDreary and without cheer
- lifelessDevoid of animation
- inhospitableUnwelcoming, harsh to visitors
forsaken · uninhabited · deserted · empty · stark · moonscape · salt flat · ghost town
famine
Severe food shortage
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- dust bowlErosion-ravaged drought zone
- crop failureWhen fields yield nothing
desertification · dry spell · rainless · irrigation · rationing · reservoir · well · groundwater · cistern · parched earth
desert
To leave behind completely
dusty · sunbaked · outback · badlands · steppe · savanna · dryland · xerophyte · cactus · succulent
desiccated
Thoroughly dehydrated
parched · anhydrous · freeze-dried · evaporated · concentrated · powdered · jerky · biltong · raisins · prunes
barren
Unable to produce
inhospitable · forsaken · uninhabited · deserted · empty · stark · moonscape · salt flat · ghost town · abandoned
parched
Extremely dry or thirsty
thirsty · unquenched · desperate · gasping · cottonmouth · panting · hydration · unslaked
- desertsand, sand dunes, sand dune, dune, dunes
- drynessarid, aridity, dry, bone dry, desiccated