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Definition of desolate in English: desolateadjective ˈdɛs(ə)lətˈdɛsələt 1(of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness. 无人烟的；荒凉的；凄凉的 荒无人烟的奔宁山脉沼泽地。 Example sentencesExamples - Those poems are all the more welcome after walking through more desolate places.
- She was now staring at a bleak and desolate landscape with nothing in the horizon but impassable mountains and valleys.
- It's strange that someone who was born in London could feel at home in such a desolate place, but I like it.
- There lay the great, rolling mattress of the Moor, a vast and desolate place protected on all its sides by uprearing mountains.
- We can't begin to imagine how the geologists survived so long in this wild and desolate place.
- The world sees the desert as a desolate land offering only hardship and discomfort.
- A community has sprung from this desolate place.
- From what they could see it was a desolate place, huge walls of reddish rock on all sides of them, with trees growing thickly on top of the cliffs.
- But the Arctic challenge will be his biggest test, not only pulling his sled in the most desolate place in the world but without experienced guides to assist him along the way.
- I hold true to my belief that there is beauty in even the most desolate places.
- Fortunately on this day the place is desolate, devoid of any human sign.
- John dropped me off where the road splits, a desolate place.
- The stars were twinkling in the night sky and a full moon gazed down on this desolate place waiting to become another new neighborhood.
- But they are not being forced to stay in this desolate place against their will.
- It was a barren, desolate place, but I could see a city in the distance.
- Finally, they stopped, seeing the sun almost touching the horizon as they now stood in a desolate area, a barren wasteland.
- The smoke she'd seen, it came from here, this desolate place.
- Erik told them that such a meal if eaten regularly could sustain them across even the most arid and desolate lands.
- Throughout December, the garden can be a desolate place, void of any horticultural flickering of life.
- There was no need for guards at the wall because there was no way out and it was a desolate place outside.
Synonyms barren, bleak, stark, bare, dismal, grim desert, waste, arid, sterile wild, windswept, inhospitable, exposed deserted, uninhabited, unoccupied, depopulated, forsaken, godforsaken, abandoned, unpeopled, untenanted, evacuated empty, vacated, vacant unfrequented, unvisited, solitary, lonely, secluded, isolated, remote 2Feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness. 痛苦的，不幸的；孤独的 I suddenly felt desolate and bereft 我突然产生了一种凄苦落寞的感觉。 Example sentencesExamples - Nevertheless, although Herbert becomes desolate, he never despairs.
- Maybe I'm just finely tuned, but right now, he just looks so forlorn, so desolate, that I don't know which way to turn.
- Eventually, Jasmine's more volatile emotions faded away of their own accord to be replaced by a feeling of desolate loneliness.
- Bereavement is feeling grief, feeling desolate, or feeling deprived after the loss of a loved one.
- I did not ask him whether he was happy or unhappy - I know he is pretty desolate most of time.
- I have never seen a more disconsolate and desolate group than the National Party after that speech.
- Lyall stood in the middle of the yard, desolate and bereft, not sure what to do or think.
- It doesn't leave you feeling desolate and destitute - it does give you hope.
- My fellow writers if my words have left you feeling a trifle depressed and desolate, cheer up.
- He missed his last session because of family commitments, this left me feeling desolate and undermined.
Synonyms miserable, sad, unhappy, melancholy, gloomy, glum, despondent, comfortless, depressed, mournful, disconsolate broken-hearted, heavy-hearted, grief-stricken wretched, downcast, cast down, dejected, downhearted, dispirited, devastated, despairing, inconsolable, anguished, crushed, forlorn, crestfallen, upset, distressed, grieving, woebegone, bereft, in low spirits informal blue, down, cut up
verb ˈdɛsəleɪtˈdɛsəˌleɪt [with object]1Make (a place) appear bleakly empty. 使（地方）变得荒凉（或荒芜） the droughts that desolated the dry plains 使这些干燥的平原变成一片荒芜的旱灾。 Example sentencesExamples - Seaford was reported even in 1356 as ‘so desolated by plague and the chances of war that men living there are so few and poor that they cannot pay their taxes or defend the town’.
- Amazingly, this visual effect neither turns the scene arty nor drains it of its excitement, but it does suggest that none of this violence has anything to do with the real violence that destroys people and desolates the earth.
- The Church defined heresy, and repressed it severely, as when Pope Innocent III launched the armed Crusade that brutally repressed the Albigenses and desolated much of southern France.
- Finally, in the far distance, the plague's desolating effects are full-blown: the city has been abandoned by the able-bodied, and civilized communication is no longer possible.
- They carried out Richard's orders to the letter, his arches and calvary slaughtered all before them, burned villages, raided and took cattle herds and desolated the countryside.
Synonyms devastate, ravage, ruin, make/leave desolate, leave in ruins, destroy, wreck, lay waste to, wreak havoc on level, raze, demolish, wipe out, obliterate, annihilate, gut depopulate, empty rare depredate, spoliate 2Make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy. 使感到极其悲惨（或不幸） he was desolated by the deaths of his treasured friends 他挚友的去世使他悲痛欲绝。 Example sentencesExamples - No fellow human being could be surprised, wrote Edward to King Alfonso as one father to another, if we were inwardly desolated by the sting of this bitter grief, for we are human, too.
- The death of his only son while on service desolated him: ‘My grief has condemned me to hard labour for the rest of my life.’
- It made me realise how utterly desolate I had felt over the last few weeks.
- Oh dear me, it desolates me to inform you that I will not be able to update either of my stories for about ten days.
- He was pretty desolated so I left a supportive comment.
Synonyms dishearten, dispirit, daunt, distress, depress, make sad/unhappy, sadden, cast down, deject, make miserable, make gloomy/despondent, weigh down, oppress informal shatter, floor
Derivativesadverb ˈdɛsələtli Sure, there were the people talking in the streets and the other's hawking their wares, but most of the population wandered desolately down the streets in an ominous silence. Example sentencesExamples - We pass signs, neon signs stacked upon neon signs, and desolately quiet cul-de-sacs where dim square windows of light hint a little of lives tucked neatly in apartments, hidden out of sight.
- ‘I wish I could speak to her,’ Tamora whispered desolately.
- ‘Take it easy, I'm over it,’ she said softly, desolately.
- I still remember a lover's quarrel last February when I'd walked desolately along Madison Avenue, only to come across a small crowd gathered around the store.
nounˈdɛsələtnəs He reined Eryn in and gazed at it; looked at the rugged desolateness of the camp and thought, I left Kefari for this… Example sentencesExamples - It would be like talking at length about the desolateness of the Scottish Highlands without mentioning the Highland Clearances.
- I remember I was driving from Leh to Manali and seeing the desolateness I told my wife this was the perfect place to die.
- Part of what was startling about the book was its desolateness, its apparent lack of pleasure in anything to do with the sport.
noun ˈdɛsəleɪtə It is they who have been the greatest desolators of the world. Example sentencesExamples - Some of these legends, so vague and so conflicting, are still preserved in the memories of aged men and white-haired matrons, who will sit by the hour and describe the gradual change which time and improvement, those twin desolators of the beautiful, had accomplished with Monk-hall.
- These are indeed abominable; but they are not desolators.
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin desolatus 'abandoned', past participle of desolare, from de- 'thoroughly' + solus 'alone'. sole from Middle English: There are three different words ‘sole’ in English. The two nouns are connected: the word for the under part of the foot comes via French from Latin solea ‘sandal, sill’, from solum ‘ground, sole’. The word was re-borrowed for the flat-fish, because its shape is reminiscent of a sole. The adjective for ‘only’ comes from Latin solus ‘alone’, source of solitary (Middle English), desolate (Late Middle English), and the musical solo (late 17th century). Solitaire (early 18th century), both the single stone in its setting and the card game played by yourself, comes from the same source.
Definition of desolate in US English: desolateadjectiveˈdɛsələtˈdesələt 1(of a place) deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness. 无人烟的；荒凉的；凄凉的 荒无人烟的奔宁山脉沼泽地。 Example sentencesExamples - Erik told them that such a meal if eaten regularly could sustain them across even the most arid and desolate lands.
- The stars were twinkling in the night sky and a full moon gazed down on this desolate place waiting to become another new neighborhood.
- There was no need for guards at the wall because there was no way out and it was a desolate place outside.
- She was now staring at a bleak and desolate landscape with nothing in the horizon but impassable mountains and valleys.
- We can't begin to imagine how the geologists survived so long in this wild and desolate place.
- From what they could see it was a desolate place, huge walls of reddish rock on all sides of them, with trees growing thickly on top of the cliffs.
- John dropped me off where the road splits, a desolate place.
- It's strange that someone who was born in London could feel at home in such a desolate place, but I like it.
- It was a barren, desolate place, but I could see a city in the distance.
- Throughout December, the garden can be a desolate place, void of any horticultural flickering of life.
- The world sees the desert as a desolate land offering only hardship and discomfort.
- Finally, they stopped, seeing the sun almost touching the horizon as they now stood in a desolate area, a barren wasteland.
- A community has sprung from this desolate place.
- But they are not being forced to stay in this desolate place against their will.
- There lay the great, rolling mattress of the Moor, a vast and desolate place protected on all its sides by uprearing mountains.
- Fortunately on this day the place is desolate, devoid of any human sign.
- But the Arctic challenge will be his biggest test, not only pulling his sled in the most desolate place in the world but without experienced guides to assist him along the way.
- The smoke she'd seen, it came from here, this desolate place.
- I hold true to my belief that there is beauty in even the most desolate places.
- Those poems are all the more welcome after walking through more desolate places.
Synonyms barren, bleak, stark, bare, dismal, grim deserted, uninhabited, unoccupied, depopulated, forsaken, godforsaken, abandoned, unpeopled, untenanted, evacuated - 1.1 Feeling or showing misery, unhappiness, or loneliness.
痛苦的，不幸的；孤独的 I suddenly felt desolate and bereft 我突然产生了一种凄苦落寞的感觉。 Example sentencesExamples - Lyall stood in the middle of the yard, desolate and bereft, not sure what to do or think.
- Maybe I'm just finely tuned, but right now, he just looks so forlorn, so desolate, that I don't know which way to turn.
- I have never seen a more disconsolate and desolate group than the National Party after that speech.
- I did not ask him whether he was happy or unhappy - I know he is pretty desolate most of time.
- Eventually, Jasmine's more volatile emotions faded away of their own accord to be replaced by a feeling of desolate loneliness.
- My fellow writers if my words have left you feeling a trifle depressed and desolate, cheer up.
- It doesn't leave you feeling desolate and destitute - it does give you hope.
- Bereavement is feeling grief, feeling desolate, or feeling deprived after the loss of a loved one.
- He missed his last session because of family commitments, this left me feeling desolate and undermined.
- Nevertheless, although Herbert becomes desolate, he never despairs.
Synonyms miserable, sad, unhappy, melancholy, gloomy, glum, despondent, comfortless, depressed, mournful, disconsolate
verbˈdesəˌlātˈdɛsəˌleɪt [with object]1Make (a place) bleakly and depressingly empty or bare. 使（地方）变得荒凉（或荒芜） the droughts that desolated the dry plains 使这些干燥的平原变成一片荒芜的旱灾。 Example sentencesExamples - Seaford was reported even in 1356 as ‘so desolated by plague and the chances of war that men living there are so few and poor that they cannot pay their taxes or defend the town’.
- They carried out Richard's orders to the letter, his arches and calvary slaughtered all before them, burned villages, raided and took cattle herds and desolated the countryside.
- The Church defined heresy, and repressed it severely, as when Pope Innocent III launched the armed Crusade that brutally repressed the Albigenses and desolated much of southern France.
- Finally, in the far distance, the plague's desolating effects are full-blown: the city has been abandoned by the able-bodied, and civilized communication is no longer possible.
- Amazingly, this visual effect neither turns the scene arty nor drains it of its excitement, but it does suggest that none of this violence has anything to do with the real violence that destroys people and desolates the earth.
Synonyms devastate, ravage, ruin, leave desolate, make desolate, leave in ruins, destroy, wreck, lay waste to, wreak havoc on - 1.1usually be desolated Make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy.
使感到极其悲惨（或不幸） he was desolated by the deaths of his treasured friends 他挚友的去世使他悲痛欲绝。 Example sentencesExamples - No fellow human being could be surprised, wrote Edward to King Alfonso as one father to another, if we were inwardly desolated by the sting of this bitter grief, for we are human, too.
- He was pretty desolated so I left a supportive comment.
- The death of his only son while on service desolated him: ‘My grief has condemned me to hard labour for the rest of my life.’
- It made me realise how utterly desolate I had felt over the last few weeks.
- Oh dear me, it desolates me to inform you that I will not be able to update either of my stories for about ten days.
Synonyms dishearten, dispirit, daunt, distress, depress, make sad, make unhappy, sadden, cast down, deject, make miserable, make despondent, make gloomy, weigh down, oppress
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin desolatus ‘abandoned’, past participle of desolare, from de- ‘thoroughly’ + solus ‘alone’. |