sunburnt

UK /ˈsʌn.bɝnt/ US /ˈsʌn.bɝnt/
adj 4

Definitions

adj

1

Having a sunburn or dark tan; having been burned by the sun's rays.

You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, / Come hither from the furrow and be merry:

[…] I must beg leave to say for my self, that I am as fair as most of my Sex and Country, and very little sun-burnt by my Travels.

2

Dried out by the sun's rays.

1753, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s-Inn Journal, No. 53, 20 October, 1753, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, Volume 2, p. 191, The barren Heath, and the Sun-burnt craggy Soil appear with all those Softenings to the Eye, which Distance throws upon a Landscape;

the well-remembered dusty road and sun-burnt fields

3

Subject to the strong heat and/or light of the sun.

So my dear Charles, you are at length […] arrived in our little sun-burnt island?

[…] when distances are obscured by mist […] the foreground assumes all its loveliest hues, the grass and foliage revive into their perfect green, and every sunburnt rock glows into an agate.

4

Resembling a sunburn in color.

The van was painted a sunburnt brown.

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