Desert

//ˈdɛz.ət//

Synonyms for "desert" (350 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Strong matches (105)

degenerate delta deny depart deserted deserts deserving desolate desolation discipline distant prospect down downs drained dried up dried-up drop droughty dry dry as dust

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Adjective(12 words)

derelict deserted desolate discarded disinhabited dropped forlorn forsaken high and dry inhabitantless inhabited left behind

Verb(3 words)

desolate forsake give up

Noun(1 words)

jol

Related words (175)

level like parchment living space llano lonely lowland lowlands lunar landscape lunar mare lunar waste lurch make off mare maroon meed menopausal merit mesa mesilla moor

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moorland niceness nonfertile nonproducing nonproductive nonprolific open country open space outback pampa pampas pass the buck payment peneplain plain plains plateau playa pleasantness prairie profitableness pull out punishment quality quit quittance rat recompense relinquish renegade renege renounce reprisal repudiate requital retribution revenge reward rewardingness right rights run run away run away from run away with run for it run off run out run out on sahara saharan salt flat salt marsh salt pan sandy sapless savanna sebkha secede sell out shift the blame shift the responsibility show the heels sine prole skedaddle skillfulness skip skip out slip the cable soundness steppe sterile strand sucked dry superiority supersede switch switch over table tableland take flight take french leave take to flight take wing teemless tergiversate terrain territory thirsting thirsty throw throw over title tree veld tundra turn turn against turn cloak turn tail turn traitor uncultivated undamped unfertile unfruitful uninhabited unpeopled unplowed unproductive unprolific unsown untilled unwatered upland usefulness vacant vacate validity value vega veld virgin virtue virtuousness walk out waste wasted wasteland waterless weald weary waste what is due what is merited wholeness wide open spaces wide-open spaces wild wilderness wildness wilds without issue wold worth

Adjective(13 words)

lifeless orphaned peopleless solitary tenantless unhabited uninhabited unoccupied unpeopled unpopulated untenanted vacant wasteful

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

10 relation types

More general

15 entries

biome deservingness flee fly go away go forth leave merit meritoriousness parcel parcel of land piece of ground piece of land take flight tract

Antonyms

2 entries

oasis ocean

Synonyms

2 entries

abandon defect

derived

104 entries

Asian desert warbler Central Desert Chinese desert cat Mojave Desert Nubian Desert Peruvian desert fox Sahara Desert Sechura desert fox Sturt's desert pea Sturt's desert rose concrete desert daughter of the desert deagle desert bean desert blue desert boot

Showing 16 of 104 words.

has a

2 entries

amazing abundance of life many sand dunes

has property

2 entries

dry less populated than cities

is a

11 entries

annual climate cycle biome deservingness dry environment ecological region natural thing place terrain terrain with lot of sand tract very dry place

manner of

1 entries

leave

receives action

2 entries

described as stark offered at end of dinner

related to

158 entries

abandon abandon army africa after after dinner after entree after meal anything area arid arid climate arid land arid landscape arid landscapes arid place arizona

Showing 16 of 158 words.

Translations

409 translations across 182 languages.

Abkhaz

1 entries

ацәҳәыра noun (barren area)

Adyghe

1 entries

бгынэн noun (barren area)

Afrikaans

1 entries

woestyn noun (barren area)

Akkadian

1 entries

idīnum noun (barren area)

Albanian

2 entries

shkretuar adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
shkretëtirë noun (barren area)

Amharic

1 entries

በረሃ noun (barren area)

Arabic

4 entries

بَرّ noun (barren area)
جَزاء noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)
صحرا noun (barren area)
صحرة noun (barren area)

Aramaic

2 entries

מדברא noun (barren area)
ܡܕܒܪܐ noun (barren area)

Armenian

3 entries

անապատ noun (barren area)
վաստակ noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)
լքել verb (to abandon)

Aromanian

3 entries

irnjii noun (barren area)
pundii noun (barren area)
pustilii noun (barren area)

Assamese

1 entries

মৰুভূমি noun (barren area)

Asturian

3 entries

desiertu noun (barren area)
ermu noun (barren area)
desertar verb (to leave military service)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

səhra noun (barren area)
çöl noun (barren area)

Bashkir

2 entries

сүл noun (barren area)
сүллек noun (barren area)

Basque

1 entries

basamortu noun (barren area)

Bavarian German

1 entries

Wiastn noun (barren area)

Belarusian

2 entries

пусты́ня noun (barren area)
дэзерці́раваць verb (to leave military service)

Bengali

1 entries

মরুভূমি noun (barren area)

Bhojpuri

1 entries

रेगिस्तान noun (barren area)

Breton

1 entries

dezerzh noun (barren area)

Bulgarian

4 entries

пуст adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
пусти́нен adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
заслу́жено noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)
пусти́ня noun (barren area)

Burmese

2 entries

ကန္တာရ noun (barren area)
သဲကန္တာရ noun (barren area)

Buryat

1 entries

сүл noun (barren area)

Carpathian Rusyn

1 entries

пустыня noun (barren area)

Catalan

4 entries

desert adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
desert noun (barren area)
desertar verb (to abandon)
desertar verb (to leave military service)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

دەشت noun (barren area)

Chechen

1 entries

гӏум-аре noun (barren area)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᎢᎾᎨ noun (barren area)

Chichewa

3 entries

chipalamba noun (barren area)
chipululu noun (barren area)
nkhwangala noun (barren area)

Chinese

4 entries

гуәбый noun (barren area)
гуәбыйтан noun (barren area)
кунтан noun (barren area)
савә noun (barren area)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

沙漠 noun (barren area)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

沙漠 noun (barren area)
砂漠 noun (barren area)
叛離 /叛离 verb (to leave military service)
變節 /变节 verb (to leave military service)

Church Slavic

3 entries

поустꙑни noun (barren area)
ⱂⱆⱄⱅⱏⰹⱀⰻ noun (barren area)
ⱂⱆⱄⱅⱏⰻⱀⰻ noun (barren area)

Chuvash

1 entries

пушхир noun (barren area)

Czech

3 entries

poušť noun (barren area)
dezertovat verb (to leave military service)
opustit verb (to abandon)

Danish

3 entries

fortjeneste noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)
ørken noun (barren area)
desertere verb (to leave military service)

Dari

2 entries

بِیَابَان noun (barren area)
صَحْرَا noun (barren area)

Dutch

4 entries

woestenij noun (barren area)
woestijn noun (barren area)
achterlaten verb (to abandon)
deserteren verb (to leave military service)

Dutch Low Saxon

1 entries

weuste noun (barren area)

Eastern Bontoc

2 entries

nakkaiang ay lota noun (barren area)
potaw noun (barren area)

Eastern Min Chinese

1 entries

沙漠 noun (barren area)

Egyptian

1 entries

U7:D21-G43-N25 noun (barren area)

Emilian

1 entries

desêrt noun (barren area)

Esperanto

3 entries

dezerto noun (barren area)
dizerti verb (to leave military service)
forlasi verb (to abandon)

Estonian

1 entries

kõrb noun (barren area)

Faroese

2 entries

oyða noun (barren area)
oyðimørk noun (barren area)

Fiji Hindi

1 entries

desert noun (barren area)

Finnish

4 entries

aavikko noun (barren area)
ansio noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)
autiomaa noun (barren area)
palkka noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)

French

4 entries

désert adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
désert noun (barren area)
abandonner verb (to abandon)
déserter verb (to abandon)

Friulian

1 entries

disiert noun (barren area)

Galician

4 entries

deserto adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
ermo adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
deserto noun (barren area)
ermo noun (barren area)

Georgian

2 entries

დამსახურება noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)
უდაბნო noun (barren area)

German

4 entries

wüst adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
Verdienst noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)
Wüeschti noun (barren area)
Wüste noun (barren area)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌹𐌳𐌰 noun (barren area)

Greek

3 entries

έρημος noun (barren area)
εγκαταλείπω verb (to abandon)
λιποτακτώ verb (to leave military service)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

dezè noun (barren area)

Hakka Chinese

1 entries

沙漠 noun (barren area)

Hausa

1 entries

hamada noun (barren area)

Hebrew

4 entries

גְּמוּל noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)
יְשִׁימוֹן noun (barren area)
מִדְבָּר noun (barren area)
עָרַק verb (to leave military service)

Hindi

4 entries

दश्त noun (barren area)
बयाबान noun (barren area)
मरु noun (barren area)
मरुभूमि noun (barren area)

Hungarian

4 entries

elhagyatott adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
kietlen adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
lakatlan adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
puszta adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)

Icelandic

3 entries

auðn noun (barren area)
eyðimörk noun (barren area)
öræfi noun (barren area)

Ilocano

2 entries

desierto noun (barren area)
kadaratan noun (barren area)

Indonesian

1 entries

gurun noun (barren area)

Ingrian

1 entries

liivikko noun (barren area)

Iranian Persian

2 entries

بِیابان noun (barren area)
صَحْرا noun (barren area)

Irish

3 entries

fásach m1 noun (barren area)
gaineamhlach m1 noun (barren area)
tréig verb (to abandon)

Istriot

1 entries

dazierto noun (barren area)

Italian

3 entries

deserto adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
deserto noun (barren area)
disertare verb (to leave military service)

Japanese

4 entries

応分 noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)
砂漠 noun (barren area)
荒野 noun (barren area)
去る verb (to abandon)

Javanese

1 entries

segara wedhi noun (barren area)

Kalmyk

2 entries

көдә noun (barren area)
цөл noun (barren area)

Kannada

1 entries

ಮರುಭೂಮಿ noun (barren area)

Karachay-Balkar

1 entries

къуругъан тюз noun (barren area)

Karaim

2 entries

данъгъыл noun (barren area)
чӧл noun (barren area)

Kashubian

2 entries

piôszczëzna noun (barren area)
pustiniowi noun (barren area)

Kazakh

1 entries

шөл noun (barren area)

Khakas

1 entries

сӧл чазы noun (barren area)

Khmer

1 entries

វាលខ្សាច់ noun (barren area)

Korean

4 entries

사막 noun (barren area)
응분 noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)
변절하다 verb (to leave military service)
탈영하다 verb (to leave military service)

Kumyk

1 entries

чёл noun (barren area)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

чөл noun (barren area)

Ladino

1 entries

desyerto noun (barren area)

Lak

1 entries

чул noun (barren area)

Lao

1 entries

ທະເລຊາຍ noun (barren area)

Latin

4 entries

desertum noun (barren area)
dēscīscō verb (to abandon)
dēserō verb (to abandon)
perfugio verb (to abandon)

Latvian

3 entries

nopelns noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)
tuksnesis noun (barren area)
dezertēt verb (to leave military service)

Limburgish

2 entries

weuste noun (barren area)
wósdje noun (barren area)

Lithuanian

1 entries

dykuma noun (barren area)

Lombard

1 entries

desert noun (barren area)

Low German

1 entries

Wööst noun (barren area)

Lubuagan Kalinga

2 entries

igew un lappun tagu noun (barren area)
leglegen noun (barren area)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Wüst noun (barren area)

Macedonian

2 entries

пустина noun (barren area)
дезерти́ра verb (to leave military service)

Malagasy

1 entries

efitra noun (barren area)

Malay

2 entries

gurun noun (barren area)
padang pasir noun (barren area)

Malayalam

1 entries

മരുഭൂമി noun (barren area)

Maltese

1 entries

deżert noun (barren area)

Manchu

1 entries

ᡤᠣᠪᡳ noun (barren area)

Marathi

1 entries

वाळवंट noun (barren area)

Middle English

4 entries

desert adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
desert noun (barren area)
desert noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)
hire noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)

Mirandese

1 entries

zerto noun (barren area)

Mizo

1 entries

rauhsan verb (to abandon)

Mongolian

2 entries

цөл noun (barren area)
ᠴᠥᠯ noun (barren area)

Māori

3 entries

koraha noun (barren area)
pīrere verb (to abandon)
whakarere verb (to abandon)

Nahuatl

1 entries

huāccāīxtlāhuatl noun (barren area)

Navajo

1 entries

doo nidahałtingóó noun (barren area)

Nepali

1 entries

मरुभूमि noun (barren area)

Newar

1 entries

फिसःबुँ noun (barren area)

Norman

4 entries

d'sèrt noun (barren area)
desert noun (barren area)
desert noun (barren area)
désaert noun (barren area)

North Frisian

1 entries

wüüst noun (barren area)

Northern Kurdish

4 entries

beyeban noun (barren area)
deşt noun (barren area)
sehra noun (barren area)
çol noun (barren area)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

ørken noun (barren area)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

ørken noun (barren area)

Occitan

2 entries

desèrt noun (barren area)
èrm noun (barren area)

Old English

1 entries

wēsten noun (barren area)

Old Spanish

3 entries

deserto noun (barren area)
desierto noun (barren area)
disierto noun (barren area)

Ossetian

1 entries

ӕдзӕрӕгран noun (barren area)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries

قیراچ adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
قیصیر adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
چوراق adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
چول noun (barren area)

Pannonian Rusyn

1 entries

пустиня noun (barren area)

Pashto

2 entries

بيابان noun (barren area)
صحرا noun (barren area)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Eed noun (barren area)

Polish

4 entries

pustynny adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
pustynia noun (barren area)
dezerterować verb (to abandon)
dezerterować verb (to leave military service)

Portuguese

4 entries

deserto adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
deserto noun (barren area)
merecimento noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)
mérito noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)

Punjabi

4 entries

ریگِسْتان noun (barren area)
صَحِرا noun (barren area)
ਮਾਰੂਥਲ noun (barren area)
ਰੇਗਿਸਤਾਨ noun (barren area)

Quechua

1 entries

ch'in pacha noun (barren area)

Romanian

3 entries

deșert noun (barren area)
pustiu noun (barren area)
a dezerta verb (to leave military service)

Romansch

3 entries

dasiert noun (barren area)
desert noun (barren area)
desiert noun (barren area)

Russian

4 entries

пусто́й adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
пусты́нный adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
заслу́женное noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)
пусты́ня noun (barren area)

Samoan

1 entries

toafa noun (barren area)

Samogitian

1 entries

dīkīnė noun (barren area)

Sanskrit

3 entries

मरु noun (barren area)
मरुभूमि noun (barren area)
वालुकाब्धि noun (barren area)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

fàsach noun (barren area)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

pústinja noun (barren area)
пу́стиња noun (barren area)
dezertírati verb (to leave military service)
дезерти́рати verb (to leave military service)

Shona

1 entries

gwenga noun (barren area)

Shor

1 entries

шӧл noun (barren area)

Sicilian

1 entries

disertu noun (barren area)

Silesian

1 entries

půstyńijo noun (barren area)

Sinhalese

1 entries

කාන්තාර noun (barren area)

Slovak

2 entries

púšť noun (barren area)
dezertovať verb (to leave military service)

Slovene

4 entries

samoten adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
pustínja noun (barren area)
puščava noun (barren area)
dezertirati verb (to leave military service)

Somali

1 entries

bataax noun (barren area)

Southern Altai

1 entries

чӧл noun (barren area)

Southern Kalinga

1 entries

lagrakan noun (barren area)

Spanish

4 entries

desierto adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
desierto noun (barren area)
merecido noun (that which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward)
abandonar verb (to abandon)

Sranan Tongo

1 entries

dreisabana noun (barren area)

Swahili

1 entries

jangwa noun (barren area)

Swedish

4 entries

öde adj (abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited)
öken noun (barren area)
desertera verb (to leave military service)
överge verb (to abandon)

Tagalog

4 entries

disyerto noun (barren area)
magpabaya verb (to abandon)
tumakas verb (to abandon)
tumanan verb (to abandon)

Tajik

3 entries

биёбон noun (barren area)
саҳро noun (barren area)
чӯл noun (barren area)

Tamil

1 entries

பாலைவனம் noun (barren area)

Tarantino

1 entries

deserte noun (barren area)

Tatar

1 entries

чүл noun (barren area)

Telugu

2 entries

ఎడారి noun (barren area)
మరుభూమి noun (barren area)

Thai

3 entries

ทะเลทราย noun (barren area)
ตัดหางปล่อยวัด verb (to abandon)
ทิ้ง verb (to abandon)

Tibetan

1 entries

བྱེ་ཐང noun (barren area)

Tocharian B

1 entries

pälkiye noun (barren area)

Tongan

1 entries

lala noun (barren area)

Tuareg

1 entries

tenere noun (barren area)

Turkish

1 entries

çöl noun (barren area)

Turkmen

1 entries

çöl noun (barren area)

Tuvan

1 entries

кум noun (barren area)

Tuwali Ifugao

1 entries

mamaga noun (barren area)

Ugaritic

1 entries

𐎎𐎄𐎁𐎗 noun (barren area)

Ukrainian

3 entries

пусте́ля noun (barren area)
пусти́ня noun (barren area)
дезертува́ти verb (to leave military service)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries

pusćina noun (barren area)

Urdu

4 entries

بَیابان noun (barren area)
بِیابان noun (barren area)
دَشْت noun (barren area)
ریگِسْتان noun (barren area)

Uyghur

2 entries

باياۋان noun (barren area)
چۆل noun (barren area)

Uzbek

3 entries

biyobon noun (barren area)
choʻl noun (barren area)
sahro noun (barren area)

Vietnamese

3 entries

hoang mạc noun (barren area)
sa mạc noun (barren area)
đào ngũ verb (to leave military service)

Volapük

1 entries

däsärt noun (barren area)

Võro

1 entries

kõrbõ noun (barren area)

Waray-Waray

1 entries

desyerto noun (barren area)

Welsh

3 entries

anialdir noun (barren area)
anialwch noun (barren area)
diffeithdir noun (barren area)

West-Frisian

1 entries

woastyn noun (barren area)

Wolof

1 entries

yay noun (barren area)

Wu Chinese

1 entries

沙漠 noun (barren area)

Xhosa

1 entries

intlango noun (barren area)

Yakut

1 entries

кумах куйаар noun (barren area)

Yiddish

2 entries

מדבר noun (barren area)
אַוועקוואַרפֿן verb (to abandon)

Yoruba

1 entries

aṣálẹ̀ noun (barren area)

Zulu

2 entries

ugwadule class 11/10 noun (barren area)
umqothu noun (barren area)

Sample sentences

34 total sentences available.

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One third of the earth's surface is desert.

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Now there is nothing but desert, where there used to be a fertile plain.

Source: tatoeba (28326)

Camels are often used to travel in the desert.

Source: tatoeba (29813)

A camel is, so to speak, a ship on the desert.

Source: tatoeba (29814)

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Desert

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Translations

Abkhaz

Adyghe

Afrikaans

Akkadian

Albanian

Amharic

Arabic

Aramaic

Armenian

Aromanian

Assamese

Asturian

Azerbaijani

Bashkir

Basque

Bavarian German

Belarusian

Bengali

Bhojpuri

Breton

Bulgarian

Burmese

Buryat

Carpathian Rusyn

Catalan

Central Kurdish

Chechen

Cherokee

Chichewa

Chinese

Chinese Cantonese

Chinese Mandarin

Church Slavic

Chuvash

Czech

Danish

Dari

Dutch

Dutch Low Saxon

Eastern Bontoc

Eastern Min Chinese

Egyptian

Emilian

Esperanto

Estonian

Faroese

Fiji Hindi

Finnish

French

Friulian

Galician

Georgian

German

Gothic

Greek

Haitian Creole

Hakka Chinese

Hausa

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Ilocano