Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight: Describes the condition of having red, painful, and sometimes peeling skin as a result of spending too much time in the sun without adequate protection.

Usage and Examples

• Adjective:
  • After a day at the beach without sunscreen, his shoulders were painfully sunburnt.
  • The sunburnt tourists sought shade and aloe vera gel for relief.
  • Her sunburnt nose began to peel a few days later.

Advanced Usage

• Descriptive Use: Often used to describe a person's appearance or a specific part of the body.
  • He had the sunburnt, weathered look of someone who worked outdoors.
• Figurative Use: Can be used metaphorically to describe something dried out or damaged by intense heat.
  • The sunburnt fields desperately needed rain.

Variants and Related Words

• Sunburned (adj): An alternative spelling and form of the adjective 'sunburnt'. Both are commonly used.
  • She was badly sunburned on her back.
• Sunburn (n): The noun form referring to the condition itself.
  • She applied lotion to soothe her sunburn.

Synonyms

• Sun-scorched: Damaged or affected by the sun's heat.
• Tanned: Having darker skin from sun exposure, but typically without the connotation of pain or damage (a key difference from 'sunburnt').

Related Phrases and Idioms

• (To be) burnt to a crisp: An informal idiom meaning to be severely sunburnt.
  • I forgot my hat and got burnt to a crisp at the cricket match.

Adjective

1. suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight