desolate
adjective
• (of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness.
• "a desolate Pennine moor"
Similar:
barren,
bleak,
stark,
bare,
dismal,
grim,
desert,
waste,
arid,
sterile,
wild,
windswept,
inhospitable,
exposed,
deserted,
uninhabited,
unoccupied,
depopulated,
forsaken,
godforsaken,
abandoned,
unpeopled,
untenanted,
evacuated,
empty,
vacated,
vacant,
unfrequented,
unvisited,
solitary,
lonely,
secluded,
isolated,
remote,
• feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness.
• "I suddenly felt desolate and bereft"
Similar:
miserable,
sad,
unhappy,
melancholy,
gloomy,
glum,
despondent,
comfortless,
depressed,
mournful,
disconsolate,
broken-hearted,
heavy-hearted,
grief-stricken,
wretched,
downcast,
cast down,
dejected,
downhearted,
dispirited,
devastated,
despairing,
inconsolable,
anguished,
crushed,
forlorn,
crestfallen,
upset,
distressed,
grieving,
woebegone,
bereft,
in low spirits,
blue,
down,
cut up,
desolate
verb
• make (a place) appear bleakly empty.
• "the droughts that desolated the dry plains"
Similar:
devastate,
ravage,
ruin,
make/leave desolate,
leave in ruins,
destroy,
wreck,
lay waste to,
wreak havoc on,
level,
raze,
demolish,
wipe out,
obliterate,
annihilate,
gut,
depopulate,
empty,
depredate,
spoliate,
• make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy.
• "he was desolated by the deaths of his treasured friends"
Similar:
dishearten,
dispirit,
daunt,
distress,
depress,
make sad/unhappy,
sadden,
cast down,
deject,
make miserable,
make gloomy/despondent,
weigh down,
oppress,
shatter,
floor,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin desolatus ‘abandoned’, past participle of desolare, from de- ‘thoroughly’ + solus ‘alone’.
