SUNBURNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sunburned mean? 

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

1. suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUNBURNED (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 

Words used to describe sensitive skin include 'like sunburned skin,' and 'raw skin.'

(NPS - Tell Us How Sensitive Your Skin is to Light Touch or Clothing, NCI Thesaurus)

He is a bulky, bearded, sunburned fellow, who looks as if he would be more at home in a farmers’ inn than in a fashionable hotel.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You won't give anyone a chance," said Laurie, with a sidelong glance and a little more color than before in his sunburned face.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But the arms were sunburned, too.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He is a tall man, sunburned, very powerful, not more than thirty.

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

Three or four of the men round the fire were evidently underkeepers and verderers from the forest, sunburned and bearded, with the quick restless eye and lithe movements of the deer among which they lived.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet while prize-courts procrastinated, or there was a chance of an appointment by showing their sunburned faces at the Admiralty, so long they would continue to pace with their quarter-deck strut down Whitehall, or to gather of an evening to discuss the events of the last war or the chances of the next at Fladong’s, in Oxford Street, which was reserved as entirely for the Navy as Slaughter’s was for the Army, or Ibbetson’s for the Church of England.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The stranger held out a huge, sunburned hand, with a few words of apology.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he struck his leg with his great sunburned hand.

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

It bewildered her that she should desire to place her hands on that sunburned neck.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)