Adust

[LukeJavan8]

Adust: scorched, burned.
The adust landscape of volcanic rock and sand can be particularly beautiful at sunset.

"Adust" comes from Latin "adustus," the past participle of "adurere"("to set fire to"), a verb formed from the Latin prefix "ad-"and the verb "urere" ("to burn"). It entered the English language in the early 15th century as a medical term related to the four bodily humors — black bile, blood, phlegm, and yellow bile — which were believed at the time to determine a person's health and temperament. "Adust" was used to describe a condition of the humors in which they supposedly became heated or combusted. Adust black bile in particular was believed to be a source of melancholy. The association with melancholy gave rise to an adjectival sense of "adust" meaning "of a gloomy appearance or disposition," but that sense is now considered archaic.

[Slava]

Nice word here. Harsh, but a good one. Just think, if your black bile makes you melancholy, how bad is your depression going to be if your black bile is adust to boot? That's a major league serious bummer.