Sunburnt

/ˈsʌn.bɝnt/ · adjective

Meaning

(of human skin) Having a sunburn or dark tan; having been burned by the sun's rays..

Definitions by Sense

1. (of human skin) Having a sunburn or dark tan; having been burned by the sun's rays.
2. (of plants and other objects) Dried out by the sun's rays.
3. (of places or objects) Subject to the strong heat and/or light of the sun.
4. Resembling a sunburn in color.
5. simple past and past participle of sunburn

Example Sentences

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.

He looked and smelt like Autumn’s very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains […]

His face was sunburned bright red, and the skin of his ears was peeling.

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

The […] fortress of the Incas stood on a lofty eminence, the steep sides of which […] were cut into terraces, defended by strong walls of stone and sunburnt brick.

[O]ut on to the bare hillside’s sunburnt grass

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Word Forms

• more sunburnt
• most sunburnt
• sunburned

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