Continent
Continent adjective - Given to or marked by restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetites.
Dry and continent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Dry" instead an adjective "Continent".
Nearby Words: continence, continental, continently
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Both words in one sentence
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Also in The Last Continent, the regatta where people run along a dry river bed carrying boats is actually happens in Alice Springs, Australia.
Source: Aluminum Christmas Trees -
In The Last Continent, set in EcksEcksEcksEcks where it never rains, the capital city of Bugarup has an annual regatta; the "boats" are on wheels because the riverbed is always dry, and always has been.
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In The Last Continent, some Ecksian ranchers complain that, with the water table running dry, if they dig their wells much deeper they'll give one of the elephants that support the Disc a nasty shock.
Source: Digging to China
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Dry and Continent. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/continent/dry
Continent & Dry. N.p., 2016. Web. 01 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/continent/dry>.
Dry or Continent. 2016. Accessed August 01, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/continent/dry.
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