Desolate
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English
Adjective
Desolate (comparative more Desolate, superlative most Desolate)
- deserted and devoid of inhabitants
- barren and lifeless
- made unfit for habitation or use
- dismal or dreary
- sad, forlorn and hopeless
Verb
Desolate (third-person singular simple present Desolates, present participle desolating, simple past and past participle desolated)
- To deprive somewhere of inhabitants; to devastate or lay waste somewhere; to abandon or forsake something; to make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
Adverbs for Desolate
grimly; utterly; profoundly; desperately; dreadfully; indescribably; singularly; supremely; bleakly; unutterably; tragically; bitterly; unbearably; intolerably; oppressively; appallingly; drearily; emptily; dismally; wildly; fearfully; perceptibly.
Synonyms for Desolate
abandoned, deserted, forgotten, bereaved, forsaken, lonely, solitary, alone, forlorn, uninhabited, waste, dreary, dejected, inhospitable, unpeopled, comfortless, miserable, secluded, wild, bare, bleak, dismal.
Antonyms for Desolate
pleasant, enjoyable, inhabited, populated, full, teeming.
Thesaurus
abandoned, acarpous, acheronian, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, alone, anguish, annihilate, arid, bare, barren, black, bleak, break down, bring to ruin, bring to tears, celibate, cheerless, childless, comfortless, condemn, confound, consume, crush, crushed, cut up, damn, dark, daunt, deal destruction, decimate, deep-troubled, defenseless, deject, dejected, demolish, depopulate, depredate, depress, depressed, desecrate, desert, deserted, desole, despoil, despondent, destitute, destroy, destroyed, devastate, devastated, devour, disconsolate, discourage, discouraged, dishearten, dismal, dismay, dispeople, dispirit, dispirited, dissolve, distressed, down, downcast, downhearted, drained, draw tears, drear, dreary, dried-up, dry, embitter, empty, engorge, excruciate, exhausted, fallow, fatherless, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, fruitless, funereal, gaunt, gelded, gloomy, gobble, gobble up, godforsaken, grieve, gut, gut with fire, havoc, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartsick, heartsore, helpless, homeless, hopeless, impotent, incinerate, inconsolable, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, inundate, isolated, issueless, jejune, joyless, kithless, lay in ruins, lay waste, leached, lonely, low-spirited, melancholy, menopausal, miserable, motherless, mournful, murky, neglected, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, obliterate, oppress, outcast, overwhelm, pillage, poor, poverty-stricken, prostrate, ravage, ravaged, raze, remote, ruin, ruinate, ruined, sack, sad, sadden, shipwreck, sick, sick at heart, sine prole, solitary, somber, sorrow, sorrowful, soul-sick, spiritless, spoliate, sterile, stricken, sucked dry, suicidal, swallow up, teemless, throw into disorder, torment, torture, unconsolable, uncouth, uncultivated, unfertile, unfrequented, unfriended, unfruitful, unhappy, uninhabited, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unoccupied, unpeople, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, upheave, vacant, vandalize, vaporize, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue, woebegone, woeful, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck, wretched
