adust meaning

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adust (adjective): dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.

adust has 2 meanings in this dictionary.

adust as an adjective

  1. dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
    • a vast desert all adust
    • land lying baked in the heat
    • parched soil
    • the earth was scorched and bare
    • sunbaked salt flats

    Synonyms: baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked

    Similar: dry

  2. burned brown by the sun
    • of an adust complexion

    Similar: brunet

Scrabble score: 6 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with AD · words ending in ST · 5-letter words

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