desolate
Meaning of desolate
- To deprive of inhabitants.
- To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
- To abandon or forsake something.
- To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
- Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house
- Barren and lifeless.
- Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc.
desolate altars
- Dismal or dreary.
- Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
Information about desolate
- The plural form of desolate is: desolates.
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Hyphenation of desolate
des-o-late
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- desolate is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
desolate synonyms
Meaning bare:
Meaning abandon:
Meaning depopulate:
Meaning lay waste to:
waste, devastate, ravage, scourge
Translation of desolate
- French: désolé, détruire, dévaster, ruiner, ravager, désert, inhabité
- German: desolat, öde, verheeren, verwüsten, veröden, devastieren
- Italian: desolato, distruggere, devastare, rovinare, deserto
- Spanish: desolado, desolada, destruir, devastar, arruinar, desierto
Words that rhyme with desolate
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