desolate

Verb

Verb Forms: desolated, desolating, desolates

• To make a place bleak, dismal, or laid waste.
• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
• reduce in population
• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
• To deprive of inhabitants.
• To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
• To abandon or forsake something.
• To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

Adjective Satellite

• providing no shelter or sustenance
  • "the desolate surface of the moon"
• crushed by grief
  • "depressed and desolate of soul"
  • "a low desolate wail"

Adj

• Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
• Barren and lifeless.
• Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc.
• Dismal or dreary.
• Sad, forlorn and hopeless.

Examples

• a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house
• A perfectly placed bingo can DESOLATE an opponent’s high-scoring strategy in Scrabble.
• desolate altars
• He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.

Synonyms

abandon, bare, barren, bleak, depopulate, desert, devastate, forsake, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, stark, waste, abandoned, aerosolize, aggrieve, annihilate, atomize, atrabiliary, atrabilious, attrist, begloom, begrieve, beingless, benothing, besorrow, bewreck, blitheless, blot out, blotto, blue, bring down, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, comfortless, contristate, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dark, dash, dearthful, decompose, deject, dejected, demolish, depeople, depress, depressed, depressing, derelict, deserted, desolate, despondent, destroy, devastated, diffuse, dire, discarded, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, disinhabited, disintegrate, dismal, dispeople, disperse, dispirit, dissolve, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, dropped, dull, elegiac, elegious, eliminate, empty, engrieve, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, forlorn, forsaken, forset, fuck, gayless, get down, give up, gloomsome, gloomy, glum, gray, grief-stricken, grieve, grieven, grieving, grim, harry, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, high and dry, inconsolable, infelicitous, inhabitantless, inhabited, jawfallen, jazz, joyless, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lamentful, lay waste, left behind, level, lifeless, liquidate, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moan, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, no joke, nuke, obliterate, oppress, orphaned, passionate, peopleless, plaintive, pull down, pulverize, querulous, race, ravaged, raze, relinquish, remove, rue, ruin, sad, sadden, sadden up, saddened, saturnine, scrunty, sere, shattered, solemn, solitary, somber, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, stamp out, sterile, sullen, sunless, tenantless, threnetic, threnetical, total, triste, tristful, tristitiate, unbreed, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unexist, ungladden, unhabited, unhappy, uninhabited, unlively, unmake, unmerry, unoccupied, unpeople, unpeopled, unpopulate, unpopulated, untenanted, uproot, upset, vacant, vacate, wasted, wasteful, wintry, wipe off, wipe out, wistful, withsake, woe, woebegone, woeful, wreck, wretched

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