Toward or in the direction of a desert; moving toward desert regions.
From 'desert' plus '-ward' (a suffix meaning direction or tendency, from Old English 'weard'). This geographical adverb describes movement or direction toward desert landscapes.
The '-ward' suffix gave English wonderful directional words: forward, backward, homeward, skyward. Desertward isn't common, but it captures something poetic—the idea of being drawn toward emptiness, toward a place of stark simplicity and clarity.
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