Desert

Noun

 * 1)  That which is considered to be deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward
 * 2) *1600, ,
 * From the highest spire of contentment / my fortune is thrown; / and fear and grief and pain for my deserts / are my hopes, since hope is gone.
 * 1) *1897,, Chapter 21
 * "Nonsense, Mina. It is a shame to me to hear such a word. I would not hear it of you. And I shall not hear it from you. May God judge me by my deserts, and punish me with more bitter suffering than even this hour, if by any act or will of mine anything ever come between us!"

Noun

 * 1) A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.

Verb

 * 1) To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake.
 * You can't just drive off and desert me here, in the middle of nowhere.
 * 1) To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission
 * Anyone found deserting will be shot.

Adverbs for Desert
woefully; heartlessly; easily; virtually; basely; cruelly; impulsively; treasonably; wilfully; criminally; wantonly; finally.

Adjectives for Desert
dreary; irreclaimable; flat; melancholy; rude; mountainous; rocky; burning; lifeless;  alkaline;  pathless;  encompassing; arid; forbidding; reactionary; scorching; unspeakable; mysterious; dreadful; measureless; voiceless; bare; palpable; comfortless; vast; withered; desolated; uninhabitable; barren; waterless; open; grim; dangerous; cactus; sandy; silent; illimitable.

Verbs for Desert
advance through—; border—; chart—; conceal in— dwell in—; frequent—; gain—; inhabit— lead into—; lose in—; patrol—; redeem— retire to—; retreat to—; roam —; span—; swallow up by—; track—; wander in—; —envelops; —howls; —menaces; —parches; —threatens.

Synonyms for Desert

 * wasteland, wilderness, reward, due, merit
 * forsake, abandon, secede, abdicate, quit, leave.

Antonyms for Desert

 * field, pasture, oasis, garden, penalty, punishment, retribution
 * remain, stay, continue, dwell, abide, wait.

Derived terms

 * deserter
 * desertion
 * desert or leave a sinking ship
 * just deserts

Thesaurus
Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Lebensraum, Sahara, Saharan, abandon, abscond, absquatulate, acarpous, advantageousness, agreeableness, air space, alkali flat, alluvial plain, anhydrous, apostacize, apostatize, arid, athirst, auspiciousness, back country, bare, barren, barren land, barrens, basin, be unfaithful, beat a retreat, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, betray, bolt, bone-dry, bottomland, break away, break faith, brush, bush, bushveld, campo, celibate, champaign, champaign country, change sides, chastening, chastisement, childless, chuck, class, clear out, clear space, clearance, clearing, coastal plain, cogency, comeuppance, compensation, cut and run, decamp, defect, degenerate, delta, depart, deserted, deserts, deserving, desolate, desolation, discipline, distant prospect, down, downs, drained, dried-up, droughty, dry, dry as dust, due, dust bowl, dusty, elope, empty, empty view, escape, excellence, exhausted, expedience, fail, fairness, fall away, fall off, fallow, favorableness, fell, fineness, first-rateness, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, flee, fly, forsake, fruitless, fugitate, gaunt, gelded, glade, go, go AWOL, go back on, go over, goodliness, goodness, grace, grass veld, grassland, healthiness, heath, helpfulness, high and dry, howling wilderness, impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless, jejune, jilt, juiceless, jump, jump bail, just deserts, justice, karroo, kindness, lande, leached, leave, let down, levant, level, like parchment, living space, llano, lonely, lowland, lowlands, lunar landscape, lunar mare, lunar waste, make off, mare, maroon, menopausal, merit, mesa, mesilla, moor, 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, 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 on, 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, switch, switch over, table, tableland, take French leave, take flight, take to flight, take wing, teemless, tergiversate, terrain, territory, thirsting, thirsty, throw over, 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, validity, value, vega, veld, virgin, virtue, virtuousness, waste, wasted, wasteland, waterless, weald, weary waste, what is due, what is merited, wholeness, wide-open spaces, wild, wilderness, wildness, wilds, without issue, wold, worth

Etymology 1
from the deserte:. This in turn is from the deservire:

Etymology 2
or désert:, from  desertum:, from  desertus:, past participle of deserere:, or from the  dSr.t:

Etymology 3
déserter:, from desertare:, from  desertus:, from deserere:

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:


 * Danish: fortjeneste
 * Finnish:

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic: מדבריא
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: ermu, desiertu
 * Basque: basamortu
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: пустиня
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: deserto
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Modern: έρημος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मरुस्थल (marusthal), मरुभूमि (marubhūmi)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: gurun


 * Irish: fásach m1, gaineamhlach m1 (sandy desert)
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 荒野
 * Korean: 사막
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: tuksnesis
 * Malayalam: മരുഭൂമി (marubhoomi)
 * Maltese:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:, صحرا
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, pustiu
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: çöl
 * Urdu: ریگستان
 * Uyghur: چۆل
 * Vietnamese: sa mạc
 * Welsh: anialwch, diffeithdir

Derived terms

 * desert boot
 * desert island
 * desert lynx


 * desert pavement
 * desert pea
 * desert rat


 * desert soil
 * desert varnish
 * desertification

Verb

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: напускам, изоставям
 * Catalan: desertar
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: : achterlaten, verlaten, aan m'n lot overlaten


 * Finnish:
 * German: verlassen, Im Stich lassen
 * Hindi: छोड़ देना
 * Japanese: 見捨てる (みすてる, misuteru), 去る(さる, saru)
 * Latin:
 * Russian:, , ,


 * Bulgarian: дезертирам
 * Catalan: desertar
 * Czech: dezertovat
 * Dutch: : deserteren
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: desertar
 * German:


 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: dezertál
 * Japanese: 脱走する (だっそうする, dassōsuru)
 * Latvian: dezertēt
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: дезертировать (dezertírovat')
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * deters
 * rested

Etymology
From desertum:.

Noun

 * 1) desert (desolate terrain)

Noun

 * 1) dessert