Definition of desert

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Desert (a.) Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island..

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Inhospitable :: Inhospitable (a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
Trackless :: Trackless (a.) Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as, a trackless desert..
Desertless :: Desertless (a.) Without desert.
Solitude :: Solitude (a.) solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.
Desert :: Desert (n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit..
Bedouin :: Bedouin (n.) One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts..
Chick-pea :: Chick-pea (n.) Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts..
Abandoned :: Abandoned (a.) Forsaken, deserted..
Renegade :: Renegade (n.) One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter.
Fugitive :: Fugitive (n.) One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice..
Etiolated :: Etiolated (a.) Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions..
Sand :: Sand (n.) Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide..
Casualty :: Casualty (n.) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion..
Torrid :: Torrid (a.) Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert..
Playa :: Playa (n.) A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation..
Waive :: Waive (v. t.) To desert; to abandon.
Sterile :: Sterile (a.) Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year..
Rat :: Rat (v. i.) In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union..
Abandonment :: Abandonment (n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment..
Desert :: Desert (v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond..
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