Australian English Meaning of desolate
desolate
Other Australian English words related to desolate
- bleak
- cold
- dark
- darkening
- depressing
- depressive
- grey
- grey
- lonely
- lonesome
- morbid
- murky
- solemn
- sombre
- blue
- Cheerless
- chill, cool
- overcast
- cheerless
- depressed
- desperate
- dire
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dismal
- Dreary
- elegiac
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- gloomy
- God-forsaken
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- glum
- oppressive
- sad
- Saturnine
- sepulchral
- sombre
- sullen
- tenebrous
- unhappy
- Cimmerian
- Colourless
- dejected
- despondent
- dim
- Disconcerting
- disheartening
- disheartening
- daunting
- disheartening
- distressful
- distressing
- dour
- down
- drab
- droopy
- dull
- elegiac
- grim
- hangdog
- hopeless
- inconsolable
- lamentable
- Low
- melancholic
- menacing
- cheerless
- mournful
- negative
- pessimistic
- plaintive
- Plutonian
- sorrowful
- sunless
- tenebrific
- threatening
- upsetting
- woebegone
- woeful
- gloomy
Nearest Words of desolate
Definitions and Meaning of desolate in English
desolate (v)
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
reduce in population
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
desolate (s)
providing no shelter or sustenance
crushed by grief
desolate (a.)
Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.
Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
Lost to shame; dissolute.
Destitute of; lacking in.
desolate (v. t.)
To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.
To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.
FAQs About the word desolate
desolate
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch, reduce in population, cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly, providing no shelter or sustena
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