desert
Meaning of desert
verb
- abandon (a person, cause, or organization) in a way considered disloyal or treacherous.
we feel our public representatives have deserted us
late Middle English: from Old French deserter, from late Latin desertare, from Latin desertus ‘left waste’ (see desert2).
noun- a waterless, desolate area of land with little or no vegetation, typically one covered with sand.
the desert of the Sinai peninsula is a harsh place
drought and deforestation are turning fragile grasslands into desert
- a flock of lapwings.
a desert of lapwings rises from a ploughed field
- like a desert.
overgrazing has created desert conditions
Middle English: via Old French from late Latin desertum ‘something left waste’, neuter past participle of deserere ‘leave, forsake’.
Information about desert
- The plural form of desert is: deserts.
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CatalanHyphenation of desert
desert
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- desert is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
desert synonyms
Meaning godforsaken:
Meaning abandon:
Meaning defect:
Meaning abandon (a spouse or partner):
Meaning expose (one's country, a group, or a person) to danger by treacherously giving information to an enemy:
Meaning suddenly reject or abandon (a lover):
Meaning fail to care for properly:
Meaning persistently avoid, ignore, or reject (someone or something) through antipathy or caution:
Meaning leave (someone) without the means to move from somewhere:
Meaning of a brownish-red colour:
Meaning voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up:
Meaning formally declare one's abandonment of (a claim, right, or possession):
Meaning stop associating with:
Meaning abandon or desert (someone):
Meaning end a relationship with (someone) peremptorily:
Meaning refuse to accept; reject:
Meaning agree to give up or do without:
Meaning solemnly renounce (a belief, cause, or claim):
Meaning deny any responsibility or support for:
Meaning renounce a religious or political belief or principle:
Meaning say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief, especially one considered heretical:
Meaning having been deserted or left:
Meaning abandoned or deserted:
Meaning persistently avoided, ignored, or rejected:
Meaning suffering a lack of proper care:
Meaning left without the means to move from somewhere:
Meaning leave (someone) trapped and alone in an inaccessible place, especially an island:
Meaning pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely:
Meaning deprived of or lacking (something):
Meaning having fallen or been allowed to fall vertically:
Meaning an unused area of land that has become barren or overgrown:
Meaning an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region:
Meaning a natural state or uncultivated or uninhabited region:
Meaning (of land or a climate) having little or no rain; too dry or barren to support vegetation:
Meaning free from moisture or liquid; not wet or moist:
Meaning dried out with heat:
Meaning burned by flames or heat:
Meaning (of a fire) produce flames and heat while consuming a material such as coal or wood:
Meaning having a high degree of heat or a high temperature:
Meaning on fire:
Meaning very hot and dry:
Meaning (of land) too poor to produce much or any vegetation:
Meaning without the appropriate, usual, or natural covering:
Meaning severe or bare in appearance or outline:
Meaning (of a person, animal, or plant) unable to reproduce itself; unable to have young:
Meaning not producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or other commodities:
Meaning not producing good or helpful results; unproductive:
Meaning having lost a large amount of water from the body:
Meaning (of land or soil) too poor in quality to produce crops:
desert antonyms
Meaning (of soil or land) producing or capable of producing abundant vegetation or crops:
Translation of desert
- French: désert, abandonné, abandonner, quiter
- Italian: deserto, abbandonato, abbandonare
- Portuguese: deserto, abandonado, abandonar
- Spanish: desierto, abandonado, abandonada, dejar, abandonar, desamparar
- German: verlassen
Anagrams of desert
Words that rhyme with desert
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