SUNBURNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sunburnt mean? 

• SUNBURNT (adjective)
  The adjective SUNBURNT has 1 sense:

1. suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight

  Familiarity information: SUNBURNT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUNBURNT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight

Synonyms:

sunburned; sunburnt

Similar:

unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)

 Context examples 

And a moment later, tearing herself half out of his embrace, suddenly and exultantly she reached up and placed both hands upon Martin Eden's sunburnt neck.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In the near distance, in contrast with the young-green of the tended grass, sunburnt hay-fields showed tan and gold; while beyond were the tawny hills and upland pastures.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He put his hand down firmly on the table, and set his sunburnt face into a resolute expression.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He said, he could discover great holes in my skin; that the stumps of my beard were ten times stronger than the bristles of a boar, and my complexion made up of several colours altogether disagreeable: although I must beg leave to say for myself, that I am as fair as most of my sex and country, and very little sunburnt by all my travels.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Beneath him you might have seen the three of us—myself, sunburnt, young, and vigorous after our open-air tramp; Summerlee, solemn but still critical, behind his eternal pipe; Lord John, as keen as a razor-edge, with his supple, alert figure leaning upon his rifle, and his eager eyes fixed eagerly upon the speaker.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A sunburnt and black-eyed Brabanter had stood near the old archers, leaning upon a large crossbow and listening to their talk, which had been carried on in that hybrid camp dialect which both nations could understand.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They left their wheels by the roadside and climbed to the brown top of an open knoll where the sunburnt grass breathed a harvest breath of dry sweetness and content.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But then, strange to say, when I stood with my ragged shoes, and my dusty, sunburnt, half-clothed figure, in the place so long desired, it seemed to vanish like a dream, and to leave me helpless and dispirited.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)