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adj. Devoid of inhabitants; deserted: "streets which were usually so thronged now grown desolate” ( Daniel Defoe).

adj. Barren; lifeless: the rocky, desolate surface of the moon.

adj. Rendered unfit for habitation or use: the desolate cities of war-torn Europe.

adj. Dreary; dismal.

adj. Bereft of friends or hope; sad and forlorn. See Synonyms at sad.

v. To rid or deprive of inhabitants.

v. To lay waste; devastate: "Here we have no wars to desolate our fields” ( Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur).

v. To forsake; abandon.

v. To make lonely, forlorn, or wretched.

adj. Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.

adj. Barren and lifeless.

adj. Made unfit for habitation or use.

adj. Dismal or dreary.

adj. Sad, forlorn and hopeless.

v. To deprive of inhabitants.

v. To devastate or lay waste somewhere.

v. To abandon or forsake something.

v. To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

adj. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy

adj. Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed.

adj. Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.

adj. Lost to shame; dissolute.

adj. Destitute of; lacking in.

v. To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants.

v. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage.

To render lonely, as a place or region, by depopulation or devastation; make desert; lay waste; ruin; ravage.

To overwhelm with grief; afflict; make very sorry or weary: as, his heart was desolated by his loss; your misfortune desolates me; to be desolated by ennui.

Solitary; lonely; without companionship; forsaken.

Overwhelmed with grief; deprived of comfort; afflicted.

Destitute; lacking.

Destitute of inhabitants; uninhabited; lonely; abandoned: as, a desolate wilderness; desolate altars; desolate towers.

Lost to shame; abandoned; dissolute.

Synonyms Companionless.

Forlorn, cheerless, miserable, wretched.

Abandoned, unfrequented, lonely, waste, wild, barren, dreary.

v. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

v. reduce in population

adj. providing no shelter or sustenance

adj. crushed by grief

v. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

inhospitable    unconsolable    disconsolate    inconsolable   

desolated    desolates    desolating   

shrink    reduce   

depopulate    depress    devastate    alone    lonely    unfrequented    uninhabited    depressed    gloomy   

desolation   

waste    desert    uninhabited    lonely    deserted    neglected    destroyed    forsaken    comfortless    dissolute   

tesselate   

lonely    bleak    barren    forlorn    arid    distant    bare    empty    rugged    cheerless