Look up DRY, driest, dry, or dryness in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Dry or dryness most often refers to:

• Lack of rainfall, which may refer to
  • Arid regions
  • Drought
• Dry or dry area, relating to legal prohibition of selling, serving, or imbibing alcoholic beverages
• Dry humor, deadpan
• Dryness (medical)
• Dryness (taste), the lack of sugar in a drink, especially an alcoholic one
• Dry direct sound without reverberation

Dry or DRY may also refer to:

Places

• Dry Brook (disambiguation), various rivers
• Dry Creek (disambiguation), various rivers and towns
• Dry, Loiret, a commune of the Loiret département in France
• Dry River (disambiguation), various rivers and towns

Art, entertainment, and media

Film

• Dry (2014 film), a Nigerian film directed by Stephanie Linus
• Dry (2022 film), an Italian film directed by Paolo Virzì
• The Dry (film), a 2020 film directed by Robert Connolly and based on the novel by Jane Harper
  • Force of Nature: The Dry 2, a 2024 sequel film

Literature

• Dry (memoir), a 2003 memoir by Augusten Burroughs
• The Dry (novel), a 2016 novel by Jane Harper

Music

• Dry (group), a Cantopop music duo
• Dry (album), by PJ Harvey, 1992
• "Dry", a song by PJ Harvey from the 1993 album Rid of Me
• "Dry" (song), by Rancid Eddie, 2021
• "Dry", a song by Kutless from their self-titled album
• "Dry", a song by Welsh band Feeder from the 1999 album Yesterday Went Too Soon

Television

• The Dry (TV series), an Irish TV series

Organizations

• Asociación Democracia Real Ya
• Plataforma ¡Democracia Real YA!
• Wets and dries, a faction in the British Conservative Party

Technology and computing

• Don't repeat yourself (DRY), a software development principle
• Dry cell, a type of battery

Other uses

• Dry (surname), a surname
• Dry (rapper) (born 1977), real name Landry Delica, rapper of Congolese origin