(a.) Very dreary.

Saharan academic acarpous anhydrous athirst barren blah blank bloodless bone-dry bookish boring bromidic celibate characterless childless cold colorless dead desert desolate dismal drab draggy drained drearisome dreary dried-up droughty dry dry as dust dryasdust dull dusty earthbound effete elephantine empty etiolated exhausted fade fallow flat fruitless gaunt gelded heavy high and dry ho-hum hollow humdrum impotent inane ineffectual inexcitable infecund infertile insipid issueless jejune juiceless lackluster leached leaden lifeless like parchment literal low-spirited menopausal moistureless monotonous mundane nonfertile nonproducing nonproductive nonprolific pale pallid pedantic pedestrian plodding pointless poky ponderous prosaic prosing prosy sandy sapless sere sine prole slow solemn spiritless staid sterile stiff stodgy stolid stuffy sucked dry superficial tasteless tedious teemless thirsting thirsty unanimated uncultivated undamped unfanciful unfertile unfruitful unideal unimaginative uninspired uninteresting uninventive unlively unoriginal unplowed unpoetic unproductive unprolific unromantic unromanticized unsown untilled unwatered vapid virgin waste wasted waterless weariful wearisome without issue wooden