desert

desert adj

ME < L. dēsert-us, forsaken, lying waste.

  1. Lonely; abandoned; barren; treeless; (see Deuteronomy 32:10).

desert [-s] n

OFr < L. dēsertum, abandoned, left waste.

  1. Wasteland; wilderness; vast, sandy plain; barren region; (see Exodus 3:1).