What does desolate mean?
Definitions for desolate
ˈdɛs ə lɪt; -ˌleɪtdes·o·late
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word desolate.
Princeton's WordNet
bare, barren, bleak, desolate, starkadjective
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"
desolateverb
crushed by grief
"depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail"
abandon, forsake, desolate, desertverb
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
"The mother deserted her children"
depopulate, desolateverb
reduce in population
"The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourgeverb
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
"The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
Wiktionary
desolateverb
To deprive of inhabitants.
desolateverb
To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
desolateverb
To abandon or forsake something.
desolateverb
To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
desolateadjective
Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
desolateadjective
Barren and lifeless.
desolateadjective
Made unfit for habitation or use.
desolateadjective
Dismal or dreary.
desolateadjective
Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Desolateadjective
Etymology: desolatus, Latin.
Let us seek some desolate shade, and there
Weep our sad bosoms empty. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.This hero appears at first in a desolate island, sitting upon the side of the sea. William Broome, on Epic Poetry.
This city shall be desolate, without an inhabitant. Jer. xxvi.
To DESOLATEverb
To deprive of inhabitants; to lay waste.
Etymology: desolo, Latin.
The island of Atlantis was not swallowed by an earthquake, but was desolated by a particular deluge; for earthquakes are seldom in those parts: but, on the other side, they have such pouring rivers, as the rivers of Asia, Africa, and Europe are but brooks to them. Francis Bacon, Essay 59.
Thick around
Thunders the sport of those, who with the gun
And dog, impatient bounding at the shot,
Worse than the season, desolate the fields. James Thomson, Winter.
Webster Dictionary
Desolateadjective
destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house
Desolateadjective
laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars
Desolateadjective
left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless
Desolateadjective
lost to shame; dissolute
Desolateadjective
destitute of; lacking in
Desolateverb
to make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood
Desolateverb
to lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Desolate
des′o-lāt, v.t. to make solitary: to deprive of inhabitants: to lay waste.—adj. solitary: destitute of inhabitants: laid waste.—adv. Des′olately.—ns. Des′olateness; Desolat′er, -or; Desolā′tion, waste: destruction: a place desolated.—adj. Des′olatory. [L. desolāre, -ātum—de, inten., and solāre, to make alone—solus, alone.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of desolate in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of desolate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of desolate in a Sentence
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
The most surprising thing that's come out of these images is the potential opportunity to catch the time when Jezero Crater transitioned from an Earth-like habitable environment, to this desolate landscape wasteland we see now, these boulder beds may be records of this transition, and we haven't seen this in other places on Mars.
You can have an El Niño climate change impact on a coral reef ; let's say it kills 40 % of the coral, but if you have swimmers there with sunscreen pollution, you're not going to have new generations coming in. So you're going to see the slow decline of the coral reefs in the area. And then you get an undersea, desolate landscape of just muck and mud and sand.
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.
It's pretty desolate up here, and it's built on the side of the mountain, so if you try to get out, once you get out, you have no idea where you're going, it's a good place to keep people that don't want to be here.
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- مهجورArabic
- пуст, необитаван, безлюден, обезлюдявам, необитаем, безутешен, безнадежден, опустошавамBulgarian
- trostlos, verlassen, ödeGerman
- solitarioSpanish
- hüljatud, kõleEstonian
- خالی از سکنهPersian
- hävittää, autioittaa, hylätä, masentaaFinnish
- désoler, ravager, désoléFrench
- सुनसान, निर्जन, बंजर, उजाड़, वीरानHindi
- elhagyatott, kihalt, lakhatatlan, reménytelenHungarian
- բարձիթողի, լքված, ամայի, անմխիթար, անբնակ, թշվառArmenian
- terpencilIndonesian
- nero, desolato, deserto, abbandonatoItalian
- שומםHebrew
- 寂しい, 寂れたJapanese
- ನಿರ್ಜನKannada
- tūheaMāori
- pustkowiemPolish
- abandonat, deșertRomanian
- безнадëжный, упадочный, оскудевший, скудный, покинутый, пустынный, необитаемыйRussian
- தனித்துவிடப்பட்டTamil
- నిర్మానుష్యమైనTelugu
- וויסטYiddish
- 荒凉Chinese
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