Dictionary

droughty en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈdɹaʊti/
• [ˈdɹʌʊɾi] (Canada)

Etymology

From drought + -y.

Meanings

1. Lacking rain.
   • 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. 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:
2. (archaic) Dry; thirsty.
   • thou muſt / With taſteleſs Water waſh thy droughty Throat. 1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 52:

Forms

Deriveds

droughtiness

Translations (6)

ru засу́шливый (lacking rain) · az quraq (lacking rain) · hu aszályos (lacking rain) · fa خشک (lacking rain) · bg сушав (lacking rain) · hu száraz (lacking rain)