desolate

/'desəlit/
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desolate

A lone traveler stands on a desolate, windswept plain.

Definition

  1. Adjective:

    • Feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness: Describes a state of being utterly miserable, forlorn, or abandoned.
    • Empty of people and lacking comfort; barren: Describes a place that is deserted, uninhabited, and often bleak or inhospitable.

  2. Verb:

    • To make (a place) bleakly and depressingly empty or bare: To devastate or ruin a place, making it deserted.
    • To cause (someone) to feel utterly wretched and unhappy: To make someone feel deeply sad, lonely, or abandoned.
Examples of Usage

  • Adjective:

    • She felt utterly desolate after the loss.
    • The house stood desolate and abandoned for decades.
    • They drove through a desolate landscape of rock and sand.

  • Verb:

    • The war desolated the once-prosperous region.
    • He was desolated by the news of his friend's betrayal.
Advanced Usage
  • "Desolate of": Completely lacking in something, especially a positive quality.
    • His heart felt desolate of hope.
  • "A desolate cry/wail": A sound expressing profound loneliness or grief.
    • A desolate wail echoed through the empty halls.
Variants and Related Words
  • Desolation (n): A state of complete emptiness or destruction; a state of bleak and dismal emptiness.
    • The desolation of the abandoned city was overwhelming.
  • Desolately (adv): In a manner showing complete unhappiness or loneliness.
    • She stared desolately out the window.
Synonyms
  • Adjective: Barren, bleak, deserted, dismal, forlorn, lonely.
  • Verb: Devastate, ravage, ruin, depopulate, abandon, depress.
Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Desolate" is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. Its meanings are typically expressed directly.)

Related Idioms
  • "To be left desolate": To be abandoned and left in a state of utter misery or loneliness.
    • After the company closed, the workers were left desolate.
desolate

A lone traveler stands on a desolate, windswept plain.

Adjective
  1. crushed by grief
    • depressed and desolate of soul
    • a low desolate wail
  2. 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
Verb
  1. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
    • The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
  2. reduce in population
    • The epidemic depopulated the countryside
  3. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
    • The mother deserted her children

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