Dictionary Definition
desolate adj
1 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"
[syn: bare, barren, bleak, stark]
2 pitiable in circumstances especially through
abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn" [syn:
forlorn, godforsaken, lorn]
3 crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of
soul"; "a low desolate wail"
4 made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"-
Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape" [syn: blasted, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted]
Verb
1 leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave
in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children" [syn: abandon, forsake, desert]
2 reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated
the countryside" [syn: depopulate]
3 devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to
the countryside after the invasion" [syn: lay waste
to, waste, devastate, ravage, scourge]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
Translations
barren / lifeless
unfit for habitation
- German: verlassen
- Italian: abbandonato
dismal
hopeless
- German: trostlos
Verb
Italian
Adjective
desolate- Feminine plural of desolato
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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