Antonyms for desert
ˈdɛz ərtdesert

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.8 / 6 votes

1. 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.

   Antonyms:
   adopt, advocate, assert, cherish, claim, court, defend, favor, haunt, hold, keep, maintain, occupy, prosecute, protect, pursue, retain, seek, support, undertake, uphold, vindicate

   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 from

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. desertnoun

   Antonyms:
   inclosure, field, pasture, garden, oasis

   Synonyms:
   wild, waste, wilderness, solitude, void

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1. • Flee
   • Leave

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 6 votes

1. desertverb

   arid land with little or no vegetation

2. 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, desolate

3. defect, 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"

   Synonyms:
   forsake, desolate, defect, abandon

4. desertverb

   leave behind

   "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period"

   Synonyms:
   defect, forsake, desolate, abandon

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. desertadjective

   Antonyms:
   fertile, arable

   Synonyms:
   waste, unproductive, barren, desolate, infertile, inarable

2. desertnoun

   Synonyms:
   merit, meed, due

3. desertnoun

   Synonyms:
   wilderness, wild

   Associated words:
   oasis, mirage, caravan, caravansary, eremic

4. desertverb

   Synonyms:
   forsake, abandon, leave, run away from

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rainforest

   a dry and barren place.

   sahara desert

   Submitted by anonymous on April 19, 2020  

How to use desert in a sentence?

1. Alex Villanueva:

   What we want to do is send a clear and loud message to the cartels and anyone doing operations in the high desert: ‘Your days are over and we’re coming for you,'.

2. The Rev. Jesse Jackson:

   It's a job desert, a health care desert, a food desert, a capital desert and a housing desert. The middle class have been driven into poverty, black lives matter.

3. Wesley D'Amico:

   Dreams are turning the desert into paradise.

4. Aaron Cassell:

   I just saw a black mushroom cloud go up, typically you dont see a mushroom cloud in the desert.

5. James Arthur Baldwin:

   Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

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