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Definitions: Adust |
AdustAdjective1. 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. (archaic) burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adust" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Adust \A*dust"\, adjective. [Latin expression adustus, past participle of adurere: compare to the French expression aduste.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: AdustSynonyms: baked (adj), parched (adj), scorched (adj), sunbaked (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Calefaction | Adjective: heated. Verb: molten, sodden; r_chauff_; heating. Verb: adust. |
Dryness | Adjective: dry, anhydrous, arid; adust, arescent; dried. Verb: undamped; juiceless, sapless; sear; husky; rainless, without rain, fine; dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Adust |
| English words defined with "adust": Adusted ♦ Droughty. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "adust": Adusted. (references) |
Expression using "adust": adust sunburned burned brown by the sun. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "adust"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | thyer në copa të vogla, i djegur nga dielli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محروق (combustible, spent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | язвителен (acerb, acerbic, acid, acidulated, acrid, acrimonious, biting, cutting, incisive, mordant, poignant, pungent, sardonic, splenetic, stinging, trenchant, vinegary, vitriolic, waspish), жлъчен (acrid, atrabilious, biliary, envenomed, poisonous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vyprahlý (parched, torrid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | brûlé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | napégette (dusky), kiszikkadt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | adusto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adustay adusto, sombrio (abstruse, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, dim, dingy, dismal, doleful, dreary, dun-bird, dusk, dust, ebon, funereal, fuscous, gaunt, gauntlet, gloomily, gloomy, glum, grave, hard-hearted, lowering, mirk, miserable, misty, morose, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, shadowy, somber, sombre, stygian, umbrageous), queimado (burnt, heated, seared). (various references) uscat (arenaceous, arid, barren, continent, crusty, dry, earth, fleshless, hungry, husky, land, main, mainland, meager, meagre, parched, sear, sere, shore, shrunken, slack, stale, thirsty, well-seasoned, wizened), posac (mopish, morose, sour, sulky, sullen, sullenly, surly), pârlit (pauper, wretched), morocãnos (crabbed, cross-grained, crusty, grouty, gruff, grumbling, grumbly, grumpish, grumpy, ill tempered, morose, morosely, peevish, snuffy, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tetchy). (various references) выжженный, желчный (acrimonious, biliary, bilious, choleric, jaundiced, liverish, spleenful). (various references) zagoreo, sumoran (atrabilious, bleak, dismal, gloomy, mirk, moody, murk, sullen), spaljen (burned, burnt, scorched), izgoreo (burnt). (various references) tostado (parched, roast, roasting, tan, toasted), quemado (burn, burn in, burning, burnt, burn-up, combustion, exhausted, heated, lame, nuclear burn up, run-down), colérico (angry, choleraic, choleric, furious, irate, passionate, wrathful). (various references) висохлий від спеки, випалений (kiln-dried, scorched), засмаглий (parched, weather beaten), загорілий (bronzed, sun tanned, sunburnt), запорошений, жовчний (acrimonious, atrabilarious, atrabiliary, atrabilious, biliary, bilious, choleric, jaundiced, liverish), похмурий (bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dull, dusky, frowning, gash, gaunt, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grave, gruff, hard-faced, inhospitable, lowering, macabre, mopish, mournful, murk, nightly, obscure, overcast, sable, saturnine, sepulchral, shadowy, stygian, sullen, surly, tenebrous). (various references) u sầu (dismal, gloomy, melancholic, melancholy), cháy khô. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dauts. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: daut, dust, stud, tads, taus, utas. | |
-2 letters: ads, sad, sat, sau, tad, tas, tau, uta, uts. | |
-3 letters: ad, as, at, ta, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: adjust, adults, audits, datums, daunts, ducats, sauted. | |
+2 letters: abducts, adducts, adjusts, astound, auldest, bustard, custard, daturas, dauties, diquats, dualist, durmast, dustman, dustpan, dustrag, mudcats, mustard, outadds, saluted, sauteed, sawdust, stadium, standup, statued, tuladis, tundras, unsated, updarts, updates, upstand. | |
+3 letters: adjuncts, adjusted, adjuster, adjustor, adulates, astounds, audients, auditors, bustards, caudates, cuspated, custards, custardy, dactylus, daubiest, daunters, defaults, deutzias, dianthus, draughts, dualists, durmasts, dustheap, dustpans, dustrags, educates, exudates, fadeouts, gaudiest, handouts, mudflats, muscadet, mustards, mustardy, outasked, outdares, outdates, outdrags, outdraws, outlands, outreads, outstand, outwards, pastured, plaudits, pulsated, quadrats, readjust, readouts, rotundas, sawdusts, sinuated, situated, squatted, stadiums, standout, stardust, subadult, sublated, sudation, sudatory, sulcated, sulfated, summated, surtaxed, tamandus, thousand, traduces, transude, unitards, unsalted, unseated, unstated, unstayed, unsteady, untasted, untreads, unwasted, updaters, updrafts, upstaged, upstands, upstared, viaducts. | |
+4 letters: abductees, abductors, absurdest, absurdist, absurdity, adductors, adjusters, adjusting, adjustive, adjustors, adjutants, adjuvants, adulators, adultness, aeroducts, altitudes, aptitudes, aqueducts, assaulted, assiduity, astounded, attitudes, auditions, auditives, aunthoods, autacoids, autocades, autocoids, autodynes, autolysed, autopsied, badmouths, breadnuts, croustade, cuspidate, custodial, custodian, daughters, dauntless, deathcups, debutants, decussate, denatures, denudates, depurates, disputant, drawtubes, drumbeats, dryasdust, dualistic, dualities, ducktails, dumpcarts, durations, duratives, dustheaps, eastbound, edematous, educators, eupatrids, exhausted, feudalist, gadabouts, graduates, guardants, habitudes, headhunts, indurates, insulated, inundates, lassitude, latitudes, laudators, lotusland, lustrated, misadjust, modulates, muscadets, mustached, nauseated, nonadults, osculated, outboards, outdances, outdreams, outfasted, outgassed, outlasted, outpassed, outraised, outsailed, outshamed, outskated, outsoared, outspread, outstands, outstared, outstated, outstayed, outtasked, outtrades, outwasted, preaudits, quadrants, quadrates, readjusts, reductase, resaluted, saturated, saturniid, sauntered, simulated, southland, southward, staghound, standouts, stardusts, staunched, subadults, sudations, sudatoria, sufflated, sulphated, sunbathed, suntanned, supinated, sustained, talmudism, tamanduas, thousands, traducers, transduce, transuded, transudes, treasured, ultrareds, underacts, undereats, undulates, unscathed, unstacked, unstained, unswathed, unthreads, upstarted, vastitude. | |
+5 letters: abducentes, abductions, abductores, absurdists, accustomed, acidulates, adductions, adjustable, adjustment, admixtures, adulations, adulterers, adulteress, adulteries, adulterous, adulthoods, adumbrates, adventures, amplitudes, andalusite, astounding, audacities, audiotapes, auditories, authorised, autostrada, autostrade, balustrade, beatitudes, breadstuff, brutalised, butadienes, caducities, candlenuts, candytufts, capsulated, coadjutors, coastguard, coruscated, courtyards, crassitude, croustades, custodians, debutantes, decussated, decussates, defaulters, defeatures, dentaliums, departures, desquamate, deuterates, deutoplasm, devaluates, dianthuses, disastrous, discussant, disputable, disputably, disputants, distraught, dramaturgs, dryasdusts, duplicates, educations, elucidates, exudations, fastidious, fecundates, feudalists, frustrated, fundaments, fustigated, gradualist, graduators, grandaunts, gratitudes, grubstaked, headcounts, humidistat, idolatrous, industrial, insinuated, inundators, juxtaposed, landaulets, lassitudes, laudations, liquidates, lotuslands, magnitudes, mansuetude, misadjusts, miseducate, modulators, nautiloids, obfuscated, outboasted, outclassed, outdazzles, outdebates, outfeasted, outlanders, outlandish, outsavored, outsmarted, outspanned, outspreads, outstarted, pantsuited, platitudes, postulated, pustulated, quadrantes, quadratics, quotidians, readjusted, reductants, reductases, reeducates, repudiates, rusticated, sacculated, saturniids, soundstage, soundtrack, southlands, southwards, speculated, sporulated, squalidest, squattered, staghounds, stimulated, stipulated, stomodaeum, stridulate, subcordate, subdialect, subjugated, sublimated, submediant, subrogated, subtotaled, subtracted, subtrahend, sudatories, sudatorium, suffocated, sulfonated, supplanted, suppurated, surrogated, talmudisms, thousandth, transduced, transducer, transduces, transfused, transmuted, transudate, transuding, truckloads, ultradense, ultrasound, unadjusted, unassisted, unattested, undercoats, underpants, underparts, underrates, understand, understate, undertakes, undertaxes, unfastened, unhandiest, unreadiest, unsheathed, unsteadied, unsteadier, unsteadies, unsteadily, unstrained, unstrapped, upstanding, vastitudes, wanderlust. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 75 73 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. ..- ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01110101 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d u s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 0075 0073 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3570878586 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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