desolatelyadv.
/ˈdɛsələtli/ a. In a desolate manner; solitarily, by oneself (obsolete); drearily, dismally, cheerlessly.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adverb] > left alone
desolately1548
destitutely1548
forlornly1630
waif-wise1924
waifishly1980
the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adverb] > in a gloomy or depressing manner
louringly1576
drearily1579
dernly1590
darkly1597
gloomingly1598
dolesomelya1626
discouraginglya1651
mopishly1651
dismally1653
depressivelya1670
surlily1711
dishearteningly1742
funereally1774
cheerlessly1789
unjoyously1812
ghastily1829
ghastlily1829
desolately1831
unjoyfully1831
depressingly1847
lugubriously1848
dispiritingly1882
uncheerfully1890
drearly1891
greyly1898
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxviijv That kyng Henry her husband, was desolately left post a lone.
1693 W. Bates Serm. Several Occasions iii. 112 Nehemiah, whom all the Pleasures of the Persian Court could not satisfy, whilst Jerusalem was desolately miserable.
1831 Q. Rev. Jan. in Byron's Wks. (1846) 470/2 (note) There is..nothing more mournfully and desolately beautiful.
a1851 D. M. Moir Deserted Churchyard vii, in Poet. Wks. (1852) The wind amid the hemlock-stalks Would desolately sing.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > dissolute conduct > [adverb]
unthriftilyc1386
unvirtuouslya1500
dissolutely1549
deperditely1608
desolately1608
perditlya1632
profligately1676
abandonedly1723
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [adverb]
unthriftilyc1386
riotously?1529
dissolutely1549
wildly1561
desolately1608
abandonedly1723
profligately1741
riotly1786
1608 Bp. J. King Serm. 5 Nov. 17 The most abominably, desolately, deperditely wicked of all others.
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