adust
- adjective
- /əˈdʌst/
- Archaic
:
quemado
- After weeks without rain, the fields lay adust beneath the unforgiving summer sun.
Examples
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The explorer crossed an adust plain, cracked and lifeless from the relentless heat.
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In the old painting, the adust landscape evoked a haunting sense of drought and desolation.
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The adust landscape looked desolate and lifeless.
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After the drought, the fields appeared adust and cracked.
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After weeks without rain, the fields lay adust beneath the unforgiving summer sun.
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The explorer crossed an adust plain, cracked and lifeless from the relentless heat.
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After the drought, the fields appeared adust and cracked.
Synonyms
13
4.7
Having very little water because of heat
1
4.6
Burned and dried by strong heat such as fire or hot sun
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4.8
Dried and hard from strong sunlight
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3.6
Left in the sun until it loses its water
Dried by strong sun or heat until hard and cracked
Antonyms
How Scorched
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word adust comes from a Latin root made of ad- 'to' and urere 'to burn', so it means 'burnt' or 'scorched'. That's why adust describes something dried out or darkened by strong heat or sunlight.