Desolate

Adjective

 * 1) deserted and devoid of inhabitants
 * 2) barren and lifeless
 * 3) made unfit for habitation or use
 * 4) dismal or dreary
 * 5) sad, forlorn and hopeless

Verb

 * 1) To deprive somewhere of inhabitants; to devastate or lay waste somewhere; to abandon or forsake something; to make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

Adverbs for Desolate
grimly; utterly; profoundly; desperately; dreadfully; indescribably; singularly; supremely; bleakly; unutterably; tragically; bitterly; unbearably; intolerably; oppressively; appallingly; drearily; emptily; dismally; wildly; fearfully; perceptibly.

Synonyms for Desolate
abandoned, deserted, forgotten, bereaved, forsaken, lonely, solitary, alone, forlorn, uninhabited, waste, dreary, dejected, inhospitable, unpeopled, comfortless, miserable, secluded, wild, bare, bleak, dismal.

Antonyms for Desolate
pleasant, enjoyable, inhabited, populated, full, teeming.

Thesaurus
abandoned, acarpous, acheronian, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, alone, anguish, annihilate, arid, bare, barren, black, bleak, break down, bring to ruin, bring to tears, celibate, cheerless, childless, comfortless, condemn, confound, consume, crush, crushed, cut up, damn, dark, daunt, deal destruction, decimate, deep-troubled, defenseless, deject, dejected, demolish, depopulate, depredate, depress, depressed, desecrate, desert, deserted, desole, despoil, despondent, destitute, destroy, destroyed, devastate, devastated, devour, disconsolate, discourage, discouraged, dishearten, dismal, dismay, dispeople, dispirit, dispirited, dissolve, distressed, down, downcast, downhearted, drained, draw tears, drear, dreary, dried-up, dry, embitter, empty, engorge, excruciate, exhausted, fallow, fatherless, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, fruitless, funereal, gaunt, gelded, gloomy, gobble, gobble up, godforsaken, grieve, gut, gut with fire, havoc, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartsick, heartsore, helpless, homeless, hopeless, impotent, incinerate, inconsolable, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, inundate, isolated, issueless, jejune, joyless, kithless, lay in ruins, lay waste, leached, lonely, low-spirited, melancholy, menopausal, miserable, motherless, mournful, murky, neglected, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, obliterate, oppress, outcast, overwhelm, pillage, poor, poverty-stricken, prostrate, ravage, ravaged, raze, remote, ruin, ruinate, ruined, sack, sad, sadden, shipwreck, sick, sick at heart, sine prole, solitary, somber, sorrow, sorrowful, soul-sick, spiritless, spoliate, sterile, stricken, sucked dry, suicidal, swallow up, teemless, throw into disorder, torment, torture, unconsolable, uncouth, uncultivated, unfertile, unfrequented, unfriended, unfruitful, unhappy, uninhabited, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unoccupied, unpeople, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unsown, untilled, upheave, vacant, vandalize, vaporize, virgin, waste, wasted, without issue, woebegone, woeful, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck, wretched

Etymology
From <  desolatus:, past participle of desolare: < solus:.

Adjective

 * Bulgarian: безлюден, необитаван
 * Estonian: hüljatud
 * German:
 * Hungarian: elhagyatott
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: 寂れた(さびれた, sabireta)
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: пустынный, необитаемый, покинутый


 * Bulgarian:
 * Estonian: kõle
 * German: verlassen


 * Hungarian: kihalt
 * Japanese: 寂れた(さびれた, sabireta)
 * Russian: оскудевший, упадочный


 * Bulgarian: необитаем
 * German:


 * Hungarian: lakhatatlan
 * Italian:


 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 寂しい(さびしい, sabishī)
 * Russian: скудный


 * Bulgarian: безнадежден, безутешен
 * German: trostlos


 * Hungarian: reménytelen
 * Russian: безнадëжный

Verb

 * Bulgarian: обезлюдявам, опустошавам
 * French:


 * Persian: خالی از سکنه

Related terms

 * desolation