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aria, n. air, melody, tune, song, chanson, Music. descant, lay, ballad, carol; ditty, canzonet, Both Music, cavatina, arietta; strain, theme.

arid, adj. 1. parched, extremely dry, thirsty, moistureless, waterless, Chem. anhydrous; droughty, without rain, torrid, burning; baked, roasted, toasted, burnt; scorched, singed, charred, blistered; dried-up, withered, sere, shriveled, shrunken; dehydrated, evaporated, desiccated.
2. barren, unproductive, sterile, infertile, unfertile, unfruitful, fruitless, infecund, unfecund; uncultivable, uncultivatable, poor, deficient, lacking, impoverished, depleted, drained, devoid, empty, destitute; desert, desolate, bare, plain, stark, naked, stripped.
3. unimaginative, prosaic, prosy, commonplace; un-suggestive, sterile, pointless, purposeless; uninteresting, dull, flat, tasteless, bland; monotonous, boring, SI. a drag, lifeless, drab, dreary; insipid, jejune, vapid, humdrum, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, soporifer-ous.

aridity, n. 1. aridness, parchedness, extreme dryness, dehydration, evaporation, desiccation; torridity, torridness.
2. barrenness, unproductivity, unproductiveness, sterility, sterileness; infertility, infertileness, unfertility, unfruitfulness, fruitlessness, infecundity, uncultivation; poverty, poorness, deficiency, lack, impoverishment, destitution, depletion, drain; emptiness, desert, waste, desolation; bareness, plainness, starkness, nakedness.
3. prosaicness, prosiness, sterility; pointlessness, purposelessness, uselessness; dullness, lifelessness, flatness, tastelessness, blandness, drabness, dreariness; insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, jejunity, vapidity, vapidness; monotony, monotonousness, humdrumness, tediousness, wearisomeness; boredom, ennui, fatigue, weariness, soporiferousness.

aright, adv. 1. rightly, correctly, accurately, without error; exactly, truly, Inf. O.K., back to normal.
2. properly, fitly, well, in a proper manner, appropriately, suitably, aptly, duly.

arise, v. 1. appear, show up, turn up, crop up, spring up, come to light, make an appearance; originate, commence, start, begin, open, dawn, come into existence.
2. often

arise from result, proceed, emanate, turn out; issue, grow out of, flow, spring forth; follow, ensue, derive.
3. rise, ascend, climb, mount, scale, go up, come up; float, fly, soar, top, tower.
4. get up, stand up, stir, move around or about; awake, wake up, get out of bed, SI. roll out.

aristocracy, n. 1. nobility, Fr. noblesse, patriciate, (in Britain) peerage; elite, privileged class, dominant class, ruling class, oligarchy, the high and mighty; gentry, gentility, upper class, Inf. upper crust; meritocracy, the best and the brightest.
2. high society, Fr. haut monde, Fr. beau monde, fashionable society; social elite, clique, coterie, jet set, beautiful people, U.S. Four Hundred; F.F.V.'s, First Families of Virginia.

aristocrat, n. nobleman, noble, patrician, silk-stocking, Inf. blue blood, gentleman; peer, lord, duke, marquis, earl, count, viscount, baron; grandee, magnifico, don, hidalgo, Fr. Hist, chevalier.

aristocratic, adj. 1. patrician, blue-blooded, silk-stocking, noble, gentle, genteel, wellborn, highborn; royal, princely, kingly, titled; (all of animals) thoroughbred, pedigreed, purebred.