Definitions for desolate

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desolate des·o·late

Spelling: [adjective des-uh-lit; verb Desolate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 354 anagrams from letters in desolate (adeelost).

Definitions for desolate

adjective

1. barren or laid waste; devastated:
2. deprived or destitute of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited.
3. solitary; lonely:
4. having the feeling of being abandoned by friends or by hope; forlorn.
5. dreary; dismal; gloomy:

verb (used with object)

1. to lay waste; devastate.
2. to deprive of inhabitants; depopulate.
3. to make disconsolate.
4. to forsake or abandon.

Origin of desolate

1325-75; Middle English Latin dēsōlātus forsaken, past participle of dēsōlāre, equivalent to dē- de- + sōlāre to make lonely, derivative of sōlus s

Examples for desolate

But Nev had been betrayed by his church, and his heart-broken death left his family poor and 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!

Do you remember the scene in which the mayor and his cronies take Dmitri to this desolate place and threaten him with a gun?

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

Here, only the twisting grey concrete under his tires disturbed the desolate wild.

He was visiting San Francisco and had questions about desolate Angel.

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.

Louisa also devotes much of her time to feeding underprivileged children in the desolate Kurland Village in South Africa.