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  • adjective Resembling a desert or some aspect of it.

Etymologies

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desert +‎ -y

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Examples

  • While the colors are "deserty" enough, I've got two problems with the new color scheme.

    I'm Irked! JDsg 2007

  • I used to live in the deserty outskirts of San Diego, where rattlers are almost a daily experience.

    How can I teach my bird dog to avoid rattlers and other snakes. 2009

  • I used to live in the deserty outskirts of San Diego, where rattlers are almost a daily experience.

    How can I teach my bird dog to avoid rattlers and other snakes. 2009

  • My personal favorite part of the absolutely deserty town of Hawthorne was the big sign that read, "US Naval undersea research facility".

    Completing the Circle Becca 2009

  • For example, you might give half the enclosures a green foresty background and the other half a reddish-brown, deserty background.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • For example, you might give half the enclosures a green foresty background and the other half a reddish-brown, deserty background.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • It is flat and deserty, and lots of rocks, but it is very beautiful.

    CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2009 2009

  • It was peculiar to this reporter that the site of the big victory was yes a bombed out bunch of deserty looking stone dwellings; yet, there were no signs of furniture or clothes or garbage, just a rubble of these weird adobe-looking stones and one rather wimpy looking hole in the ground they said was where the bomb hit.

    VICTORY IN IRAQ The Daily Growler 2006

  • It had the same tall window gazing out on the deserty-looking mountains, the same exposed rock making one wall, a familiar reception desk dominating the room's center, but all the materials were different: hand-hewed timbers replaced the slick chrome support beams, big-looped throw rugs covered the plank floor where before he'd walked on expensive carpet.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

  • If they're not _too _deserty, there may be enough plant life to support some grazing -- although it's easy to overdo, as overgrazed lands from the ancient Levant to the twentieth-century western US show all too clearly.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

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