Associations to the word «Desolate»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
DESOLATE, adjective. Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
DESOLATE, adjective. Barren and lifeless.
DESOLATE, adjective. Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
DESOLATE, adjective. Dismal or dreary.
DESOLATE, adjective. Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
DESOLATE, verb. To deprive of inhabitants.
DESOLATE, verb. To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
DESOLATE, verb. To abandon or forsake something.
DESOLATE, verb. To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
Dictionary definition
DESOLATE, verb. Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children".
DESOLATE, verb. Reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside".
DESOLATE, verb. Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion".
DESOLATE, adjective. 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".
DESOLATE, adjective. Crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail".
Wise words
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.