Synonyms for desert
| Grammar : Adj, noun, verb |
| Spell : dez-ert |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛz ərt |
Top 10 synonyms for desert Other synonyms for the word desert
- abscond
- apostatize
- arid region
- badland
- bail out
- bare
- barren
- barren land
- beach
- check out
- chuck
- cop out
- crawl out
- decamp
- duck
- flats
- fly
- go
- go AWOL
- go back on
- go over the hill
- go west
- infertile
- jilt
- lava bed
- leave
- leave high and dry
- leave in the lurch
- leave stranded
- light
- maroon
- opt out
- play truant
- pull out
- quit
- relinquish
- renounce
- resign
- run out on
- Sahara
- sand dunes
- sneak off
- solitary
- solitude
- split
- sterile
- strand
- take a hike
- take off
- tergiversate
- throw over
- uninhabited
- unproductive
- untilled
- vacate
- violate oath
- walk
- waste
- wild
- wilderness
- wilds
Définition of desert
Origin :- "to leave one's duty," late 14c., from Old French deserter (12c.) "leave," literally "undo or sever connection," from Late Latin desertare, frequentative of Latin deserere "to abandon, to leave, forsake, give up, leave in the lurch," from de- "undo" (see de-) + serere "join together, put in a row" (see series). Military sense is first recorded 1640s. Related: Deserted; deserting.
- adj barren, uncultivated
- noun wasteland; dry area
- verb abandon, defect
- De Lord had been with them in six troubles, and he would not desert them in de seventh.
- Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
- Their ancestors, like those of the Jews and the Babylonians, had been a desert folk.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- For many years they lived amidst the trackless hills of the desert.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- To desert a woman was justifiable, under certain circumstances.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- But to desert a woman, and have her apparently not even know it, was against the rules of the game.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- She knows every inch of the mountains, the canyons and the desert.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- He knew no other girl who was master of the secrets of the desert and the canyons and the mountains.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- So they said good-bye to Katy and rolled past Eileen's room on the way to the desert.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- They could not move, because they would have had to desert either the guns or the wounded.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
- She had not experimented to an authoritative extent with the desert pickles.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
Antonyms for desert
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