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What is the adjective for deserted?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs desert and desertify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

deserted
  1. (of a place) Abandoned, without people.
  2. desolate (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “For a time, the deserted child drifts hither and thither on the treacherous tide of city life.”
      “In the early morning on December 10th, an administrator of the deserted building visited the premises to patrol the area.”
      “He symbolizes forever the intense loneliness, as final as that of a deserted hermit on a Himalayan peak.”
deserty
  1. Resembling a desert or some aspect of it.
desert
  1. Abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited; usually of a place.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “As they sat on gray folding chairs in the desert wasteland, the war seemed to be in dismal shape.”
      “I looked at the scorching desert sand as the silvery moon was cooling it.”
      “For those who came first, it was hard work. They had no accommodation and had to clear and prepare the stark desert land for agricultural production.”
desertic
  1. of or pertaining to a desert or deserts
  2. Examples:
    1. “The train moves fast across the mountains, it had left the desertic zone of the city behind and everything had turned more green.”
      “The climate is desertic and semi-desertic in the coast and western andean watersheds, subtropical in the easthern watersheds.”
      “In spite of the desertic climate, a lot of clouds were seen against the clear blue sky.”
desertless
  1. (obsolete) Undeserving.
deserticolous
  1. That lives in deserts
desertlike
  1. Resembling a desert
  2. Examples:
    1. “Most widespread around the sandhills is scrub, which is a desertlike habitat of sandy mounds with scattered clumps of vegetation.”
      “The surrounding country is desertlike and cut by gullies and washes with sheer escarpments and precipitous draws.”
      “In South America, the Andes mountain range blocks Pacific moisture that arrives in that continent, resulting in a desertlike climate just downwind across western Argentina.”
deserting
desertified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of desertify
desertifying
  1. present participle of desertify
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