adust

a·dust  (-dst)

adj.

1. Burned; scorched.

2. Archaic Browned by the sun; sunburned.

3. Archaic Melancholy in appearance or temperament; gloomy.

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[Middle English, from Latin adustus, past participle of adrere, to set fire to : ad-, ad- + rere, to burn.]

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adust [əˈdʌst]

adj Archaic

1. dried up or darkened by heat; burnt or scorched

2. gloomy or melancholy

[C14 (in the sense: gloomy): from Latin adūstus, from adūrere to set fire to, from ūrere to burn]

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	adust - 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" baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked dry - free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry"
	2.	adust - burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression brunet, brunette - marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes; "a brunette beauty"