Desolate can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| desolate - crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail" | ||
| 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" | ||
Verb |
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| desolate - To deprive of inhabitants. | ||
| desolate - To devastate or lay waste somewhere. | ||
| desolate - To abandon or forsake something. | ||
| desolate - To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless. |
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| 1. | adj. | Depressed and desolate of soul. | |
| 2. | adj. | A low desolate wail. | |
| 3. | adj. | The desolate surface of the moon. | |
| 4. | adj. | The town was desolate after the flood. | |
| 5. | adj. | If one does not have a hobby, his life may be desolate. | |
| 6. | adj. | It echoed desolate. | |
| 7. | adj. | It was a thoroughly desolate landscape, without a soul in sight. | |
| 8. | adj. | I can't bear the chill of seeing everybody happy, and knowing myself so lonely and desolate. | |
| 9. | adj. | I kept thinking, thinking of the pale, haggard, lonely little girl on the cold and desolate side of the window-pane. | |
| 10. | adj. | Layla lived in a remote and desolate part of Australia. | |
| 11. | adj. | The house was feeling desolate. | |
| 12. | adj. | Sometimes he was desolate and innocent, but sometimes gracious and flamboyant. I couldn't know his all sides yet. | |
| 13. | adj. | Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out. It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky. | |
| 14. | adj. | Sami marched for days in the desolate cold. | |
| 15. | adj. | Uprose the image of my father dear, / as there I see the monarch, bathed in blood, / like him in prowess and in age his peer. / Uprose Creusa, desolate and drear, / Iulus' peril, and a plundered home. |
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| adj. | |
| Depressed and desolate of soul. |
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| A low desolate wail. |
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| The desolate surface of the moon. |
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| The town was desolate after the flood. | |
| If one does not have a hobby, his life may be desolate. | |
| It echoed desolate. | |
| It was a thoroughly desolate landscape, without a soul in sight. | |
| I can't bear the chill of seeing everybody happy, and knowing myself so lonely and desolate. | |
| I kept thinking, thinking of the pale, haggard, lonely little girl on the cold and desolate side of the window-pane. | |
| Layla lived in a remote and desolate part of Australia. | |
| The house was feeling desolate. | |
| Sometimes he was desolate and innocent, but sometimes gracious and flamboyant. I couldn't know his all sides yet. | |
| Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out. It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky. | |
| Sami marched for days in the desolate cold. | |
| Uprose the image of my father dear, / as there I see the monarch, bathed in blood, / like him in prowess and in age his peer. / Uprose Creusa, desolate and drear, / Iulus' peril, and a plundered home. | |