desolate

adjunused, barren
adjdepressed, despondent
verbravage, destroy

Synonyms for desolate

adj unused, barren

Antonyms for desolate

Word Origin & History

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.

Example Sentences for desolate

Yet all seemed cheerless; for the heart of Paralus was desolate.

He was ashamed to be there—ashamed to meet the desolate and, as he believed, erring sister.

And how desolate was its abandonment, what a stream of silence and solitude it was!

To the cast and north of our hill was an expanse of rolling, desolate wilderness.

All my plans for my work and my life assumed the most gray and desolate hues.

A desolate and lonely craft, the smoke draggled out of her funnel.

I made a world to myself in the solitude of my now desolate feelings.

The desolate loneliness of the old came to him when his old master was gone.

She shall see them beg their bread, and seek it in desolate places!

The "Helen" of the story is a Greek, beautiful, desolate, defiant—pure as snow.

desolate

Synonyms for desolate

Antonyms for desolate

bare

barest

barren

bleak

bleaker

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Synonyms for desolate

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