"droughty" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈdɹaʊti/, [ˈdɹʌʊɾi] [Canada] Forms: droughtier [comparative], droughtiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -aʊti Etymology: drought + -y Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|drought|y}} drought + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} droughty (comparative droughtier, superlative droughtiest)
  1. Lacking rain. Translations (lacking rain): quraq (Azerbaijani), сушав (sušav) (Bulgarian), aszályos (Hungarian), száraz (Hungarian), خشک (Persian), засу́шливый (zasúšlivyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-droughty-en-adj-xUEyxeAq Disambiguation of 'lacking rain': 99 1
  2. (archaic) Dry; thirsty. Tags: archaic Categories (topical): Weather
    Sense id: en-droughty-en-adj-hI1FABhX Disambiguation of Weather: 37 63 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 94 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 6 94 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: drouthy

Inflected forms

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