arid

Adjective

• lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
  • a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata
    
  • a desiccate romance
    
  • a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery-C.J.Rolo
    

• lacking sufficient water or rainfall
  • an arid climate
    
  • a waterless well
    
  • miles of waterless country to cross
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  desiccate , desiccated , waterless