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Synonyms for desolate
| Grammar : Adj, verb |
| Spell : adjective des-uh-lit; verb des-uh-leyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : adjective ˈdɛs ə lɪt; verb ˈdɛs əˌleɪt |
Top 10 synonyms for desolate Other synonyms for the word desolate
- abandoned
- acheronian
- bereft
- black
- blue
- cheerless
- comfortless
- companionless
- dejected
- depopulate
- depredate
- desecrate
- desert
- despoil
- destroyed
- devastate
- devour
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dolorous
- down
- downcast
- forsaken
- funereal
- gloomy
- godforsaken
- hurting
- in a blue funk
- inconsolable
- joyless
- lay low
- lay waste
- lorn
- melancholy
- miserable
- pillage
- plunder
- ruin
- ruined
- sack
- solitary
- somber
- spoliate
- tragic
- unfrequented
- unoccupied
- vacant
- waste
- wild
- wretched
Définition of desolate
Origin :- mid-14c., "without companions," also "uninhabited," from Latin desolatus, past participle of desolare "leave alone, desert," from de- "completely" (see de-) + solare "make lonely," from solus "alone" (see sole (adj.)). Sense of "joyless" is 15c.
- adj unused, barren
- adj depressed, despondent
- verb ravage, destroy
- Yet all seemed cheerless; for the heart of Paralus was desolate.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- He was ashamed to be there—ashamed to meet the desolate and, as he believed, erring sister.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- And how desolate was its abandonment, what a stream of silence and solitude it was!
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- To the cast and north of our hill was an expanse of rolling, desolate wilderness.
- Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
- All my plans for my work and my life assumed the most gray and desolate hues.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- A desolate and lonely craft, the smoke draggled out of her funnel.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- I made a world to myself in the solitude of my now desolate feelings.
- Extract from : « Gomez Arias » by Joaqun Telesforo de Trueba y Coso
- The desolate loneliness of the old came to him when his old master was gone.
- Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet
- She shall see them beg their bread, and seek it in desolate places!
- Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine
- The "Helen" of the story is a Greek, beautiful, desolate, defiant—pure as snow.
- Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
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