sunbaked

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adjective

Baked by the heat of the sun.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of sunbake
adjectivesunbaked (comparative more sunbaked, superlative most sunbaked)

comparative more sunbaked · superlative most sunbaked

  1. Baked by the heat of the sun.

    1995 (1966), Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynolds (translator), The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Volume 1, page 235, Morocco is another, more sunbaked Italy.

    2 more examples

    Though tempered in hotter climates, I had no sooner driven out of the sombre hotel and the deep shade of the great Cathedral, by which it has been darkened for ages, than I was conscious that the temperature of Rheims even could occasionally rise to a height to test the endurance of the most sunbaked.

    1867, Robert Tomes, The Champagne Country, page 112

    He found his way to San Pedro, which, with its rolling topography and adjacent harbor, bore a certain resemblance to a more sunbaked County Cork, a quality that attracted more than a few Irish, many of whom worked unloading cargo from around the world.

    2008, Seth Greenland, Shining City, page 85
  2. figurativelySuntanned

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivedried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight

adjectivebaked or hardened by exposure to sunlight; not burned

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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