droughty

English

Alternative forms

• drouthy

Etymology

From drought +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹaʊti/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [ˈdɹʌʊɾi]
• Rhymes: -aʊti

Adjective

droughty (comparative droughtier, superlative droughtiest)

1. Lacking rain.
   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 268:

     From habit the sheep would head for the river, but, though it was early spring, the winter had been droughty, and the river was only a string of dangerous water-holes.

2. (archaic) Dry; thirsty.
   • 1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 52:

     thou muſt / With taſteleſs Water waſh thy droughty Throat.

Derived terms

• droughtiness

 

Translations

lacking rain

• Azerbaijani: quraq (az)
• Bulgarian: сушав (bg) (sušav)
• Hungarian: aszályos (hu), száraz (hu)
• Persian: خشک (fa)
• Russian: засу́шливый (ru) (zasúšlivyj)