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Adust

Definitions: Adust

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. (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: Adust

Synonyms: baked (adj), parched (adj), scorched (adj), sunbaked (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Adust

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Adust

English words defined with "adust": AdustedDroughty. (references)
Etymologies containing "adust": Adusted. (references)

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Expression: Adust

Expression using "adust": adust sunburned burned brown by the sun. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Adust

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

выжженный, желчный (acrimonious, biliary, bilious, choleric, jaundiced, liverish, spleenful). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zagoreo, sumoran (atrabilious, bleak, dismal, gloomy, mirk, moody, murk, sullen), spaljen (burned, burnt, scorched), izgoreo (burnt). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

u sầu (dismal, gloomy, melancholic, melancholy), cháy khô. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Adust

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Adust


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 64 75 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -..    ..-    ...    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100100 01110101 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#100 &#117 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0064 0075 0073 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3570878586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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