Adust has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
Adjective
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"
3
Of a bodily humour: abnormally dark or over-concentrated (associated with various states of discomfort or illness, specifically being too hot or dry).
Example Sentences
"a vast desert all adust"
adjective
"land lying baked in the heat"
adjective
"parched soil"
adjective
"the earth was scorched and bare"
adjective
"sunbaked salt flats"
adjective
"of an adust complexion"
adjective