Dictionary Entry
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.
8 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
- 2adjective
Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.
- 3adjective
Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
- 4adjective
Lost to shame; dissolute.
- 5adjective
Destitute of; lacking in.
- 6transitive verb
To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.
- 7transitive verb
To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.
- 8verb
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
"The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
- 9verb
reduce in population
"The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
Synonyms
- 10verb
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
"The mother deserted her children"
- 11adjective
crushed by grief
"depressed and desolate of soul"
"a low desolate wail"
- 12adjective
providing no shelter or sustenance
"bare rocky hills"
"barren lands"
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