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ALL meanings of desolate

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  • adjective desolate A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort. 3
  • adjective desolate If someone is desolate, they feel very sad, alone, and without hope. 3
  • verb desolate If something desolates you, it upsets you and makes you very unhappy. 3
  • adjective desolate uninhabited; deserted 3
  • adjective desolate made uninhabitable; laid waste; devastated 3
  • adjective desolate without friends, hope, or encouragement; forlorn, wretched, or abandoned 3
  • adjective desolate gloomy or dismal; depressing 3
  • verb desolate to deprive of inhabitants; depopulate 3
  • verb desolate to make barren or lay waste; devastate 3
  • verb desolate to make wretched or forlorn 3
  • verb desolate to forsake or abandon 3
  • adjective desolate left alone; lonely; solitary 3
  • adjective desolate made uninhabitable; laid waste; in a ruinous state 3
  • adjective desolate forlorn; wretched 3
  • verb transitive desolate to make desolate; rid of inhabitants 3
  • verb transitive desolate to make uninhabitable; lay waste; devastate 3
  • verb transitive desolate to forsake; abandon 3
  • verb transitive desolate to make forlorn, wretched, etc. 3
  • adjective desolate barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape. 1
  • adjective desolate deprived or destitute of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited. 1
  • adjective desolate solitary; lonely: a desolate place. 1
  • adjective desolate having the feeling of being abandoned by friends or by hope; forlorn. 1
  • noun desolate Make (a place) bleakly and depressingly empty or bare. 1
  • adjective desolate dreary; dismal; gloomy: desolate prospects. 1
  • verb with object desolate to lay waste; devastate. 1
  • verb with object desolate to deprive of inhabitants; depopulate. 1
  • verb with object desolate to make disconsolate. 1
  • verb with object desolate to forsake or abandon. 1
  • adjective desolate landscape: bleak 1
  • adjective desolate person: feeling bereft 1
  • verb desolate To deprive of inhabitants. 0
  • verb desolate To devastate or lay waste somewhere. 0
  • verb desolate To abandon or forsake something. 0
  • verb desolate To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless. 0
  • adjective desolate Deserted and devoid of inhabitants. 0
  • adjective desolate Barren and lifeless. 0
  • adjective desolate Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed. 0
  • adjective desolate Dismal or dreary. 0
  • adjective desolate Sad, forlorn and hopeless. 0
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