desolate
desolate is a 8-letter English word with 12 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
- adjective. Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.
- adjective. Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
- adjective. Lost to shame; dissolute.
- adjective. Destitute of; lacking in.
- transitive verb. To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.
- transitive verb. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.
- verb. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
"The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
- verb. reduce in population
"The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
- verb. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
"The mother deserted her children"
- adjective. crushed by grief
"depressed and desolate of soul"
"a low desolate wail"
- adjective. providing no shelter or sustenance
"bare rocky hills"
"barren lands"
Synonyms
devastate, ravage, scourge, waste, depopulate, abandon, desert, forsake, bare, barren, bleak, stark
Common word forms
desolated, desolater, desolates, desolately, desolating, desolateness
Words from these letters
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