1.
Arid land is so dry that very few plants can grow on it.
...new strains of crops that can withstand ~ conditions.
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2.
If you describe something such as a period of your life or an academic subject as ~, you mean that it has so little interest, excitement, or purpose that it makes you feel bored or unhappy.
She had given him the only joy his ~ life had ever known.
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