This is the 9624th most frequent French word.
désertique
Arid or desert-like.
In this sentence, 'désertique' is used as an adjective to describe a landscape that resembles a desert due to lack of rain, emphasizing its barren and dry qualities.
Le paysage semblait désertique après plusieurs jours sans pluie.
The landscape seemed desert-like after several days without rain.
Here, 'désertique' refers to the challenging and extreme environmental conditions typical of a desert, highlighting the difficulty for living beings in such environments.
Les conditions désertiques rendent la survie difficile pour la plupart des espèces.
Desert-like conditions make survival difficult for most species.
In this context, 'désertique' is used to describe the transformation of a region's ecology to mimic that of a desert due to human activities, such as resource depletion or environmental neglect.