desolate

[Des·o*late]

If you feel alone, left out, and devastated, you feel desolate. A deserted, empty, depressing place can be desolate too.

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Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.

Verb
devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

Verb
reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"

Verb
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

Adjective S.
made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"

Adjective S.
pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn"

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Adjective S.
crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail"

Adjective S.
providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"

a.
Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.

a.
Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.

a.
Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.

a.
Lost to shame; dissolute.

a.
Destitute of; lacking in.

v. t.
To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.

v. t.
To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.

Desolate

Des"o*late , a. [L. desolatus, p. p. of desolare to leave alone, forsake; de- + solare to make lonely, solus alone. See Sole, a.] 1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolate creeks and pools among.
2. Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars. 3. Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
Have mercy upon, for I am desolate.
Voice of the poor and desolate.
4. Lost to shame; dissolute. [Obs.] Chaucer. 5. Destitute of; lacking in. [Obs.]
I were right now of tales desolate.
Syn. -- Desert; uninhabited; lonely; waste.

Desolate

Des"o*late , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Desolating.] 1. To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood. 2. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.
Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war.

Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.

To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.

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Usage Examples

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate all that was once so beautiful is dead.

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