Word Meanings - DESOLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an

Additional info about word: DESOLATE

1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Jer. ix. 11. And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolate creeks and pools among. Tennyson. 2. Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars. 3. Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless. Have mercy upon, for I am desolate. Ps. xxv. 16. Voice of the poor and desolate. Keble. 4. Lost to shame; dissolute. Chaucer. 5. Destitute of; lacking in. I were right now of tales desolate. Chaucer. Syn. -- Desert; uninhabited; lonely; waste.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESOLATE)

• Disconsolate
• Sad
• forlorn
• melancholy
• inconsolable
• brokenhearted
• sorrowful
• unhappy
• desolate
• woful
• Forlorn
• Abandoned
• deserted
• forsaken
• solitary
• destitute
• hapless
• luckless
• helpless
• disconsolate
• lone
• woe-begone
• lonesome
• wretched
• Lonesome
• dreary
• Wild
• lonely
• Ravage Spoil
• devastate
• despoil
• destroy
• ransack
• waste
• ruin
• overrun
• plunder
• Vast
• Waste
• wild
• extensive
• spacious
• wide spread
• gigantic
• wide
• boundless
• measureless
• enormous
• mighty
• huge
• immense
• colossal
• prodigious
• far-reaching

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DESOLATE)

• People
• colonize
• plant
• develop
• fertilize
• cultivate
• enrich
• enliven

Related words: (words related to DESOLATE)

• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• DESOLATE
  1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
• HAPLESS
  Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• IMMENSENESS
  The state of being immense.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• DEVASTATE
  To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• FORLORNLY
  In a forlorn manner. Pollok.
• ENORMOUSLY
  In an enormous degree.
• RAVAGER
  One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.