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adjective
- 1. (of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness: "a desolate Pennine moor" Similar Opposite
- 2. feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness: "I suddenly felt desolate and bereft" Similar Opposite
verb
- 1. make (a place) appear bleakly empty: "the droughts that desolated the dry plains" Similar
- 2. make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy: "he was desolated by the deaths of his treasured friends" Similar Opposite
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DESOLATE definition: 1. A desolate place is empty and not attractive, with no people or nothing pleasant in it: 2…. Learn more.
1. : devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted. a desolate abandoned town. 2. : joyless, disconsolate, and sorrowful through or as if through separation from a loved one. a desolate widow. 3. a. : showing the effects of abandonment and neglect : dilapidated. a desolate old house. b. : barren, lifeless. a desolate landscape. c.
adjective. barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape. Synonyms: bleak. deprived or destitute of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited. Synonyms: remote. solitary; lonely: a desolate life. having the feeling of being abandoned by friends or by hope; forlorn.
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly. IPA guide. Other forms: desolated; desolating; desolates; desolatingly. If you feel alone, left out, and devastated, you feel desolate. A deserted, empty, depressing place can be desolate too.
DESOLATE meaning: 1. A desolate place is empty and not attractive, with no people or nothing pleasant in it: 2…. Learn more.
Definition of desolate adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
adj. 1. a. Devoid of inhabitants; deserted: "streets which were usually so thronged now grown desolate"(Daniel Defoe). b. Barren; lifeless: the rocky, desolate surface of the moon. 2. Feeling, showing, causing, or expressing sadness or loneliness. See Synonyms at sad. tr.v.(-lāt′)des·o·lat·ed, des·o·lat·ing, des·o·lates. 1.