More arid; more extremely dry than something else.
From arid (Latin aridus, 'dry') + -er (comparative suffix). Standard English formation for comparing two things.
The Atacama Desert in Chile is arider than the Sahara in some measurements—proving that 'arid' comes in degrees, and extreme dryness is a spectrum rather than a binary state.
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