ALL meanings of desert
des·ert
D d - variable noun desert A desert is a large area of land, usually in a hot region, where there is almost no water, rain, trees, or plants. 3
- countable noun desert If you refer to a place or situation as a desert, you think it is bad for people because it is not interesting, exciting, or useful in any way. 3
- verb desert If people or animals desert a place, they leave it and it becomes empty. 3
- verb desert If someone deserts you, they go away and leave you, and no longer help or support you. 3
- verb desert If you desert something that you support, use, or are involved with, you stop supporting it, using it, or being involved with it. 3
- verb desert If a quality or skill that you normally have deserts you, you suddenly find that you do not have it when you need it or want it. 3
- verb desert If someone deserts, or deserts a job, especially a job in the armed forces, they leave that job without permission. 3
- noun desert a region that is devoid or almost devoid of vegetation, esp because of low rainfall 3
- noun desert an uncultivated uninhabited region 3
- noun desert a place which lacks some desirable feature or quality 3
- noun desert of, relating to, or like a desert; infertile or desolate 3
- verb desert to leave or abandon (a person, place, etc) without intending to return, esp in violation of a duty, promise, or obligation 3
- verb desert to abscond from (a post or duty) with no intention of returning 3
- verb desert to fail (someone) in time of need 3
- verb desert to give up or postpone (a case or charge) 3
- noun desert something that is deserved or merited; just reward or punishment 3
- noun desert the state of deserving a reward or punishment 3
- noun desert virtue or merit 3
- verb transitive desert to forsake (someone or something that one ought not to leave); abandon 3
- verb transitive desert to leave (one's post, military service, etc.) without permission 3
- verb transitive desert to fail (someone) when most needed 3
- intransitive verb desert to leave one's post, military duty, etc. without permission and with no intent to return, or, in war, in order to avoid hazardous duty 3
- noun desert an uncultivated region without inhabitants; wilderness 3
- noun desert a dry, barren, sandy region, often extremely hot 3
- adjective desert of a desert or deserts 3
- adjective desert wild and uninhabited 3
- noun desert the fact of deserving reward or punishment 3
- noun desert deserved reward or punishment 3
- noun desert the quality of deserving reward; merit 3
- noun desert Usually, deserts. reward or punishment that is deserved: Death was his desert. Synonyms: due, payment, recompense, reward; justice, retaliation, retribution, penalty. 1
- noun desert the state or fact of deserving reward or punishment. 1
- noun desert the state or condition of being worthy, as in character or behavior. Synonyms: merit, virtue, worth. 1
- adjective desert of, relating to, or like a desert. Synonyms: desolate; barren, infertile; arid. 1
- adjective desert occurring, living, or flourishing in the desert: a desert tribe; a desert palm. 1
- adjective desert designed or suitable for wear in the desert, as cool, protective clothing: a big, wide-brimmed desert hat. 1
- verb with object desert to leave (a person, place, etc.) without intending to return, especially in violation of a duty, promise, or the like: He deserted his wife. Synonyms: abandon, leave, quit; forsake. 1
- verb with object desert (of military personnel) to leave or run away from (service, duty, etc.) with the intention of never returning: Terrified of the approaching battle, he deserted his post just before dawn. 1
- verb with object desert to fail (someone) at a time of need: None of his friends had deserted him. 1
- verb without object desert to forsake or leave one's duty, obligations, etc. (sometimes followed by from, to, etc.): Many deserted during the food shortage. Synonyms: abdicate, resign. 1
- verb without object desert (of military personnel) to leave service, duty, etc., with no intention of returning: Troops were deserting to the enemy. Synonyms: go AWOL. 1
- idioms desert get / receive / etc. one's (just) deserts, to be punished or rewarded in a manner appropriate to one's actions or behavior: Some people felt he had gotten his just deserts, having been imprisoned and relieved of his ill-gotten gains, but others would have preferred old-style public flogging, followed by drawing and quartering, and who can blame them? 1
- noun desert Like a desert. 1
- noun desert arid region 1
- noun desert place: lacks sth 1
- adjective desert barren, desolate 1
- transitive verb desert sb, sth: abandon 1
- transitive verb desert post: leave without permission 1
- transitive verb desert duties: forsake 1
- intransitive verb desert leave post without permission 1
- noun desert (chiefly in the plural) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward. 0