Definition of Desolate

Desolate

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.

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.

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Desolate Quotations

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
Bram Stoker

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.
Matthew Simpson

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.
Conrad Aiken

When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.
Lee Greenwood

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.
Ernest Dowson

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Desolate Translations

desolate in Dutch is troosteloos, somber, naargeestig
desolate in French is saccager
desolate in Hungarian is vigasztalan
desolate in Italian is desolare
desolate in Portuguese is desolado
desolate in Spanish is desolado, desolar

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