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- parts of speech:
- adjective, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| pronunciation: |
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liht
[or]
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liht
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| definition 1: |
without those things necessary or desirable for life; bleak; barren.
a desolate island- synonyms:
- bleak, inhospitable
- similar words:
- barren, desert, forbidding, stark, unfriendly, uninviting, waste
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| definition 2: |
having no inhabitants or dwellings; deserted; lonely.
- synonyms:
- deserted, lonely, lonesome, uninhabited
- antonyms:
- populous
- similar words:
- abandoned, barren, forlorn, isolated, out-of-the-way, remote, secluded, unfrequented, unoccupied, vacant
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| definition 3: |
feeling friendless or hopeless.
- synonyms:
- abandoned, discouraged, forlorn, forsaken, hopeless, lonely, lonesome
- similar words:
- dejected, depressed, despondent, doleful, downcast, downhearted, low-spirited, melancholy, mournful, sad, woebegone, woeful
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| related words: |
alone, cheerless, disconsolate, lonely, lonesome, miserable, poor, wild, wretched |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| pronunciation: |
de
s
leIt
[or]
de
z
leIt
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| inflections: |
desolates, desolating, desolated |
| definition 1: |
to make bleak, barren, or uninhabitable.
The spread of deserts has desolated much farmland.- synonyms:
- devastate, lay waste, ravage
- similar words:
- despoil, destroy, gut, level, raze, ruin, spoil, strip, waste
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| definition 2: |
to remove inhabitants or dwellings; cause to be deserted.
- synonyms:
- cast out, depopulate, evacuate
- similar words:
- dispossess, eject, evict, expel
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| definition 3: |
to make (someone) feel lonely, friendless, or hopeless.
Her divorce desolated her.- synonyms:
- deject, devastate
- similar words:
- depress, discourage, dishearten, distress, grieve, oppress, pain, trouble, wound
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| related words: |
annihilate, harry |
| derivations: |
desolately (adv.), desolator (desolater) (n.) |
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