Found 3 items, similar to desolate.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: desolate buas, merusakkan, terpencil
English → English (WordNet) Definition: desolate desolate adj 1: 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” [syn: bare, barren, bleak, stark] 2: pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; “desolate and despairing”; “left forlorn” [syn: forlorn, godforsaken, lorn] 3: crushed by grief; “depressed and desolate of soul”; “a low desolate wail” 4: made uninhabitable; “upon this blasted heath”- Shakespeare; “a wasted landscape” [syn: blasted, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted] desolate v 1: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; “The mother deserted her children” [syn: abandon, forsake, desert] 2: reduce in population; “The epidemic depopulated the countryside” [syn: depopulate] 3: devastate or ravage; “The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion” [syn: lay waste to, waste, devastate, ravage, scourge]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Desolate Desolate \Des"o*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Desolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Desolating.] 1. To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood. [1913 Webster] 2. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city. [1913 Webster] Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war. --Sparks. [1913 Webster] Desolate \Des"o*late\, a. [L. desolatus, p. p. of desolare to leave alone, forsake; de- + solare to make lonely, solus alone. See Sole, a.] 1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. [1913 Webster] I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. --Jer. ix. 11. [1913 Webster] And the silvery marish flowers that throng The desolate creeks and pools among. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars. [1913 Webster] 3. Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless. [1913 Webster] Have mercy upon, for I am desolate. --Ps. xxv. 16. [1913 Webster] Voice of the poor and desolate. --Keble. [1913 Webster] 4. Lost to shame; dissolute. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Destitute of; lacking in. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] I were right now of tales desolate. --Chaucer. Syn: Desert; uninhabited; lonely; waste. [1913 Webster]