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Synonyms for desert
ˈdɛz ərtdesert
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
desert
Abandon is a word of wide signification, applying to persons or things of any kind; abdicate and resign apply to office, authority, or power; cede to territorial possessions; surrender especially to military force, and more generally to any demand, claim, passion, etc. Quit carries an idea of suddenness or abruptness not necessarily implied in abandon, and may not have the same suggestion of finality. The king abdicates his throne, cedes his territory, deserts his followers, renounces his religion, relinquishes his titles, abandons his designs. A cowardly officer deserts his ship; the helpless passengers abandon it. We quit business, give up property, resign office, abandon a habit or a trust. Relinquish commonly implies reluctance; the fainting hand relinquishes its grasp; the creditor relinquishes his claim. Abandon implies previous association with responsibility for or control of; forsake implies previous association with inclination or attachment, real or assumed; a man may abandon or forsake house or friends; he abandons an enterprise; forsakes God. Abandon is applied to both good and evil action; a thief abandons his designs, a man his principles. Forsake, like abandon, may be used either in the favorable or unfavorable sense; desert is always unfavorable, involving a breach of duty, except when used of mere localities; as, "the Deserted Village." While a monarch abdicates, a president or other elected or appointed officer resigns. It was held that James II. abdicated his throne by deserting it.
Synonyms:
abandon, abdicate, abjure, cast off, cease, cede, depart from, discontinue, forego, forsake, forswear, give up, leave, quit, recant, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retire from, retract, surrender, vacate, withdraw fromAntonyms:
adopt, advocate, assert, cherish, claim, court, defend, favor, haunt, hold, keep, maintain, occupy, prosecute, protect, pursue, retain, seek, support, undertake, uphold, vindicate
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
desertverb
arid land with little or no vegetation
abandon, forsake, desolate, desertverb
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
"The mother deserted her children"
Synonyms:
waste, devastate, give up, lay waste to, abandon, vacate, scourge, empty, depopulate, defect, forsake, ravage, desolatedefect, desertverb
desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
"If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot"
desertverb
leave behind
"the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
desertadjective
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uninhabited, desolate, forsaken, wild, waste, barren, untilleddesertnoun
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wilderness, waste, solitude, deserted regiondesertverb
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forsake, leave, quit, abandon, renounce, leave in the lurch, turn one's back upondesertnoun
Synonyms:
deserving, due, merit or demerit
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Desert
Desert vs. Dessert -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Desert and Dessert.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1129 | leave | |
#1980 | waste | |
#2028 | wild | |
#2448 | void | |
#2964 | empty | |
#4409 | desert | |
#6027 | quit | |
#7846 | wilderness | |
#10327 | defect | |
#10671 | sahara | |
#10939 | dessert | |
#11444 | cease | |
#11564 | surrender | |
#14530 | abandon | |
#19661 | resign | |
#21790 | solitude | |
#21978 | saharan | |
#22808 | discontinue | |
#25882 | deserts | |
#29478 | wasteland | |
#35321 | scourge | |
#36359 | desolate | |
#36540 | vacate | |
#38092 | retract | |
#41807 | relinquish | |
#42606 | renounce | |
#47832 | forsake | |
#49931 | forego | |
#50794 | walkabout | |
#66067 | cede | |
#79641 | ravage | |
#80715 | devastate | |
#82810 | repudiate | |
#87973 | abdicate | |
#128134 | recant | |
#212527 | abjure | |
#249199 | forswear | |
#257035 | sahrawi | |
#327541 | depopulate |
How to use desert in a sentence?
It's a remote area with very rugged terrain. Isolated, sparsely populated, a lot of it is high desert terrain; other parts are mountainous, i'm told there are caves in the area, there are mines, unoccupied homes, outbuildings, just a lot of places for a person to hide.
Tom is a hardworking, decent man with a long history of service to his community and his country, a U.S. Navy veteran who served his country during Desert Storm, Tom received a law degree and is a well-respected attorney. Tom has worked at Apple for 14 years, where he is now its head of Global Security. His entire professional career has been founded on the belief that a good leader models ethics and integrity, and he does not deserve to have his good name tarnished by these baseless charges.
It's a bit of a desert now.
Overall, La Nina typically means less precipitation for the Sierra, Great Basin region, and the Mojave Desert, which is bad for the current drought status and the potential for another active fire season next year, however, the magnitude of the La Nina event will dictate the magnitude of impacts on the winter weather pattern. Considering the current state of ENSO is neutral, La Nina may be weak through at least the early part of the winter season.
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Translations for desert
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- صحراءArabic
- dezertCzech
- ørkenDanish
- WüsteGerman
- έρημοςGreek
- dezertoEsperanto
- DesiertoSpanish
- کویرPersian
- aavikkoFinnish
- désertFrench
- fásachIrish
- रेगिस्तानHindi
- sivatagHungarian
- gurunIndonesian
- desertoItalian
- מִדבָּרHebrew
- 砂漠Japanese
- ಮರುಭೂಮಿKannada
- 사막Korean
- solitudinemLatin
- woestijnDutch
- ørkenNorwegian
- pustyniaPolish
- desertoPortuguese
- deşertRomanian
- пустыняRussian
- oken-Swedish
- பாலைவனத்தில்Tamil
- ఎడారిTelugu
- ทะเลทรายThai
- çTurkish
- пустеляUkrainian
- صحراUrdu
- Sa mạcVietnamese
- מדברYiddish
- 沙漠Chinese
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