Synonyms for desolate
ˈdɛs ə lɪt; -ˌleɪtdes·o·late

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1. desolateadjective

   Synonyms:
   bereaved, forlorn, forsaken, comfortless, deserted, uninhabited, desert, wild, waste, bare, bleak, lonely

   Antonyms:
   cheered, cheerful, consoled, attended, cultivated, sheltered, fertile, luxuriant, animated, lively, gay, frequented

2. desolateverb

   Synonyms:
   waste, spoil, sack, plunder, pillage, ravage, devastate, depopulate

   Antonyms:
   people, colonize, plant, develop, fertilize, cultivate, enrich, enliven

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1. bare, barren, bleak, desolate, starkadjective

   providing no shelter or sustenance

   "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"

   Synonyms:
   spare, bare(a), devoid, perfect(a), consummate(a), blunt, unornamented, austere, au naturel(p), bare, raw, marginal, arrant(a), black, severe, gross(a), staring(a), simple(a), stripped, destitute, mere(a), cutting, everlasting(a), double-dyed(a), crude(a), dim, complete(a), innocent, plain, nude, unsheathed, pure(a), unfinished, barren, stark(a), unadulterated, thoroughgoing(a), free, naked, bleak, unembellished, sodding(a), scanty, stark, utter(a), stern

   Antonyms:
   consolable, hospitable

2. desolateverb

   crushed by grief

   "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail"

   Synonyms:
   stark, barren, bleak, bare

   Antonyms:
   hospitable, consolable

3. abandon, forsake, desolate, desertverb

   leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

   "The mother deserted her children"

   Synonyms:
   waste, devastate, give up, desert, lay waste to, abandon, vacate, scourge, empty, depopulate, defect, forsake, ravage

   Antonyms:
   hospitable, consolable

4. depopulate, desolateverb

   reduce in population

   "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"

   Synonyms:
   waste, ravage, devastate, desert, abandon, scourge, lay waste to, depopulate, forsake

   Antonyms:
   hospitable, consolable

5. lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourgeverb

   cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

   "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

   Synonyms:
   waste, harry, scourge, emaciate, flagellate, abandon, blow, forsake, run off, devastate, desert, neutralise, pine away, neutralize, consume, macerate, ware, depopulate, languish, liquidate, squander, ravage, do in, rot, knock off, lay waste to

   Antonyms:
   consolable, hospitable

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1. deserted

   deserted means alone, or empty.

   the deserted mountain had been left alone for years.

   Submitted by anonymous on December 22, 2019  

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1. desolateadjective

   Synonyms:
   uninhabited, unfrequented, desert, forsaken, dreary, wild, waste, barren

2. desolateadjective

   Synonyms:
   lonely, solitary, companionless

3. desolateadjective

   Synonyms:
   ruined, destroyed, devastated, ravaged, laid waste

4. desolateadjective

   Synonyms:
   comfortless, cheerless, miserable, wretched, forlorn

5. desolateverb

   Synonyms:
   ravage, devastate, depopulate, ruin, destroy, despoil, sack, ransack, lay waste

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1. desolateadjective

   Synonyms:
   dreary, waste, broken-hearted, inconsolable, solitary, devastated

2. desolateverb

   Synonyms:
   devastate, depredate, despoil, sack, lay waste

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1. List of paraphrases for "desolate":

   abandoned, barren, disused

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1. Ricardo Ross:

   Every time I walk past, their home is desolate, it just looks scary.

2. Sanjay Gupta:

   It was sparse, desolate, and for most requirements we would have to go to New Delhi, it was a distance away from everything that we needed.

3. Craig Downs:

   You can have an El Niño climate change impact on a coral reef ; let's say it kills 40 % of the coral, but if you have swimmers there with sunscreen pollution, you're not going to have new generations coming in. So you're going to see the slow decline of the coral reefs in the area. And then you get an undersea, desolate landscape of just muck and mud and sand.

4. Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

   How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

5. Candice Cooley:

   Dylan had a farm, Dylan had a goal, and he had a drive in life so that he would absolutely not let anything, anything, take him away, this is a kid that the last three years has been out in the desolate desert tearing out new ground.