desiccated

thoroughly dried out

• “old boxes of desiccated Cuban cigars”
• “dried-out boards beginning to split”

preserved by removing natural moisture

• “dried beef”
• “dried fruit”
• “dehydrated eggs”
• “shredded and desiccated coconut meat”

lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless

• “a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata”
• “a desiccate romance”
• “a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery” C.J.Rolo