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. Chris Cabrera:

   It's very desolate, very remote.

2. David Benjamin:

   It's pretty desolate up here, and it's built on the side of the mountain, so if you try to get out, once you get out, you have no idea where you're going, it's a good place to keep people that don't want to be here.

3. Benjamin Weiss:

   The most surprising thing that's come out of these images is the potential opportunity to catch the time when Jezero Crater transitioned from an Earth-like habitable environment, to this desolate landscape wasteland we see now, these boulder beds may be records of this transition, and we haven't seen this in other places on Mars.

4. 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.

5. Arthur O'Shaunessey:

   We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.