What is another word for "arid"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "arid": acarpous, addle, adust, and, anhydrous, arefaction, aridity, barren, biscuit, blow, bone, chemical, clothes, clothesline, come, dehydrate, dephlegmation, desert, desiccate, desiccation, desiccative, device, disable, drain, drainage, dried, drier, drought, dry, drying, dryness, dust, ebb, effect, electric, exsiccate, exsiccation, fallow, fine, fire.