desolate

desolate
adj
1. devastated, laid waste, desolated, barren; ravaged, gutted, wrecked, ruined, destroyed.
2. deserted, uninhabited, unpeopled, depopulated, untenanted, unoccupied; desert, waste, wild, bare, empty, destitute; unvisited, unfrequented, inhospitable; solitary, lonely, isolated, remote, secluded, out-of-the-way.
3. forlorn, Poetic. lorn, bereft, abandoned, forsaken; outcast, excluded; alone, lonely, lonesome, lost; estranged, alienated, companionless, friendless, unfriended, homeless.
4. disconsolate, unconsolable, sad, cheerless, joyless, spiritless, hopeless, despondent; dejected, downcast, low-spirited, downhearted, discouraged, depressed; melancholy, doleful, sorrowful, mournful; miserable, wretched, woebegone, woeful, heavy-hearted; brokenhearted, bereaved.
5. dreary, Literary. drear, dismal, gloomy, bleak, somber, dark, funereal, tenebrous.
v
6. devastate, lay waste, waste; despoil, Archaic. spoil, ravage, harry, pillage, plunder, depredate; ransack, sack, strip, rifle; destroy, blast, wreck, ruin, lay in ruins; demolish, raze, level, gut, obliterate, annihilate, extirpate.
7. depopulate, unpeople; make desolate, eject, drive out, expel, evict, dispossess.
8. depress, discourage, daunt, dishearten, dispirit; sadden, deject, weigh down, burden, oppress, trouble; distress, grieve, wound, pain.
9. forsake, abandon, desert, quit, leave, leave in the lurch, turn one's back on, repudiate, Inf. drop, renounce, reject, disown, disinherit.

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