Adjective
- 1. adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked, dry (vs. wet)
- usage: 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. adust, brunet (vs. blond), brunette
- usage: burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott
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