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- parts of speech:
- adjective, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| pronunciation: |
de
s
liht
[or]
de
z
liht
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| definition 1: |
without those things necessary or desirable for life; bleak; barren.
a desolate island- synonyms:
- bleak, inhospitable
- similar words:
- barren, desert, forbidding, stark, unfriendly, uninviting, waste
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| definition 2: |
having no inhabitants or dwellings; deserted; lonely.
- synonyms:
- deserted, lonely, lonesome, uninhabited
- antonyms:
- populous
- similar words:
- abandoned, barren, forlorn, isolated, out-of-the-way, remote, secluded, unfrequented, unoccupied, vacant
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| definition 3: |
feeling friendless or hopeless.
- synonyms:
- abandoned, discouraged, forlorn, forsaken, hopeless, lonely, lonesome
- similar words:
- dejected, depressed, despondent, doleful, downcast, downhearted, low-spirited, melancholy, mournful, sad, woebegone, woeful
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| related words: |
alone, cheerless, disconsolate, lonely, lonesome, miserable, poor, wild, wretched |
adverb + (adj.)desolate
absolutely, largely, nowhere, otherwise
(adj.)desolate
+ adverb
sparsely
(adj.)desolate
+ noun
area,
attic,
beach,
beauty,
building,
camp,
coast,
corner,
countryside,
desert,
dirt,
estate,
expanse,
field,
flat,
forest,
grass,
highway,
hill,
island,
land,
landscape,
look,
moonscape,
mountain,
mud,
neighborhood,
parking,
patch,
peak,
pier,
place,
plain,
planet,
prairie,
railroad,
ranch,
refugee,
region,
road,
rubble,
ruin,
sand,
scene,
shell,
shore,
shoreline,
sky,
spot,
street,
stretch,
strip,
swamp,
terrain,
town,
valley,
village,
waste,
wasteland,
wilderness
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| pronunciation: |
de
s
leIt
[or]
de
z
leIt
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| inflections: |
desolates, desolating, desolated |
| definition 1: |
to make bleak, barren, or uninhabitable.
The spread of deserts has desolated much farmland.- synonyms:
- devastate, lay waste, ravage
- similar words:
- despoil, destroy, gut, level, raze, ruin, spoil, strip, waste
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| definition 2: |
to remove inhabitants or dwellings; cause to be deserted.
- synonyms:
- cast out, depopulate, evacuate
- similar words:
- dispossess, eject, evict, expel
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| definition 3: |
to make (someone) feel lonely, friendless, or hopeless.
Her divorce desolated her.- synonyms:
- deject, devastate
- similar words:
- depress, discourage, dishearten, distress, grieve, oppress, pain, trouble, wound
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| related words: |
annihilate, harry |
| derivations: |
desolately (adv.), desolator (desolater) (n.) |
The word desolate
contains the following part:
sol2, soli
Latin
root
that means alone
  Example words:
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