adust

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /əˈdʌst/   

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Abnormally dark or over-concentrated (associated with various states of discomfort or illness, specifically being too hot or dry). historical,postpositional,usually
    — From melancholy aduſt ariſes one kind [of humour]; from Choler another, which is moſt brutiſh: another from Flegme, which is dull; and the laſt from Blood, which is beſt.
  2. Hot and dry; thirsty or parched. broadly
    — He was tired and adust with long riding; but he did not go home.
  3. Burnt or having a scorched colour. archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
adustible adustness

词源

From Middle French aduste, and its source, Latin adustus (“burnt, scorched”), past participle of adūrere.
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