sunburnt

adj

1. Having a sunburn or dark tan; having been burned by the sun's rays.

   “You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, / Come hither from the furrow and be merry:”

   “[…] I must beg leave to say for my self, that I am as fair as most of my Sex and Country, and very little sun-burnt by my Travels.”

   “He looked and smelt like Autumn’s very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains […]”

   “His face was sunburned bright red, and the skin of his ears was peeling.”

2. Dried out by the sun's rays.

   “1753, Arthur Murphy, The Gray’s-Inn Journal, No. 53, 20 October, 1753, London: P. Vaillant, 1756, Volume 2, p. 191, The barren Heath, and the Sun-burnt craggy Soil appear with all those Softenings to the Eye, which Distance throws upon a Landscape;”

   “the well-remembered dusty road and sun-burnt fields”

   “The […] fortress of the Incas stood on a lofty eminence, the steep sides of which […] were cut into terraces, defended by strong walls of stone and sunburnt brick.”

   “[O]ut on to the bare hillside’s sunburnt grass”

3. Subject to the strong heat and/or light of the sun.

   “So my dear Charles, you are at length […] arrived in our little sun-burnt island?”

   “[…] when distances are obscured by mist […] the foreground assumes all its loveliest hues, the grass and foliage revive into their perfect green, and every sunburnt rock glows into an agate.”

   “Most of it [the island of Mauritius] was high […] so that gusts of fresh winds often blew exuberantly off the sea, and the British could build their villas far above the sunburnt coast.”

4. Resembling a sunburn in color.

   “The van was painted a sunburnt brown.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of sunburn