desolateadjective
uk/ˈdes.əl.ət/us/ˈdes.əl.ət/desolate adjective (EMPTY)
A desolate place is empty and not attractive, with no people or nothing pleasant in it:
The house stood in a bleak and desolate landscape.
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Empty
- bare
- barren
- blank
- clear
- dead
- deserted
- desolation
- emptiness
- empty
- flat
- hollow
- lifeless
- nothingness
- unfurnished
- uninhabited
- unoccupied
- vacant
- vacuum
- void
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Not attractive to look at
desolate adjective (SAD)
extremely sad and feeling alone:
She felt desolate when her best friend moved away.
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Feeling sad and unhappy
- (down) in the dumps idiom
- a dog's life idiom
- a long face idiom
- abject
- be cut up idiom
- be down in the mouth idiom
- be in a funk idiom
- bruised
- dog
- doleful
- dour
- downhearted
- grieving
- miserably
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- morose
- mournful
- not be a happy camper idiom
- wretched
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desolated
adjective [ after verb ] uk/ˈdes.əl.eɪ.tɪd/us/ˈdes.əl.eɪ.t̬ɪd/
She was desolated at the loss of her sister.
desolately
adverb uk/ˈdes.əl.ət.li/us/ˈdes.əl.ət.li/