Definition of "sunburnt"
sunburnt
adjective
comparative more sunburnt, superlative most sunburnt
(of human skin) Having a sunburn or dark tan; having been burned by the sun's rays.
Quotations
You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, / Come hither from the furrow and be merry:
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]
[…] 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.
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 171
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 […]
1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter XII, in The Woodlanders […], volume II, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, page 230
(of places or objects) Subject to the strong heat and/or light of the sun.
Quotations
[…] 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.
1856, John Ruskin, chapter 16, in Modern Painters, volume IV (part V), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], page 251
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.
1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part 3, Chapter 26, p. 536