a. | 1. | Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; |
2. | Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; | |
3. | Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless. | |
4. | Lost to shame; dissolute. | |
5. | Destitute of; lacking in. | |
v. t. | 1. | To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; |
2. | To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; |
Verb | 1. | desolate - leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children" |
2. | desolate - reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside" Synonyms: depopulate | |
3. | desolate - devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" | |
Adj. | 1. | desolate - 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" |
2. | desolate - pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn" | |
3. | desolate - crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail" | |
4. | desolate - made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape" |