DESOLATE Synonyms

• offering little or no hope

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• unpleasantly cold and damp

• forsaken by owner or inhabitants

• holding or containing nothing

• a container that has been emptied

• devoid of significance or force

• needing nourishment

• emptied of emotion

• make void or empty of contents

• become empty or void of its content

• leave behind empty; move out of

• remove the contents of a container

• excrete or discharge from the body

• being the only one; single and isolated from others

• marked by dejection from being alone

• confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners

• one who lives in solitude

• characterized by or preferring solitude

• of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies

• lacking companions or companionship

• being the only one; single and isolated from others

• devoid of creatures

• not having inhabitants; not lived in

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry

• a feeling of extreme emotional intensity

• forsake, leave behind

• give up with the intent of never claiming again

• leave behind empty; move out of

• stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• not having a protective covering

• lacking its natural or customary covering

• having no clothes on the body

• lacking in magnitude or quantity

• just barely adequate or within a lower limit

• apart from anything else; without additions or modifications

• lacking a surface finish such as paint

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• having everything extraneous removed including contents

• lacking embellishment or ornamentation

• expose to view

• make public

• lay bare

• reduce in population

• (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment

• arid land with little or no vegetation

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army

• leave behind

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• overwhelm or overpower

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• (usually plural) a destructive action

• make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• a whip used to inflict punishment

• something causing misery or death

• a person who inspires fear or dread

• punish severely; excoriate

• whip

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• to the fullest degree

• devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment

• severely simple

• complete or extreme

• without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted

• useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly

• the trait of wasting resources

• an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

• (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

• located in a dismal or remote area; desolate

• spend thoughtlessly; throw away

• use inefficiently or inappropriately

• dispose of

• run off as waste

• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

• spend extravagantly

• lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

• cause to grow thin or weak

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• become physically weaker

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly