adust - Definitions from Dictionary.com

4 results for: adust

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This

a·dust

Audio Help [uh-duhst] Pronunciation Key

–adjective

1.	dried or darkened as by heat.

2.	burned; scorched.

3.	Archaic. gloomy in appearance or mood.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME < L adustus (ptp. of adūrere), equiv. to ad- ad- + us- (base of ūrere to burn) + -tus ptp. suffix

]

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
adust

To learn more about adust visit Britannica.com

American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

a·dust Audio Help (ə-dŭst') Pronunciation Key
adj.

Burned; scorched.
Archaic Browned by the sun; sunburned.
Archaic Melancholy in appearance or temperament; gloomy.

[Middle English, from Latin adustus, past participle of adūrere, to set fire to : ad-, ad- + ūrere, to burn.]

(Download Now or Buy the Book)

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This

adust
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"
2.	burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott