DESOLATING Synonyms

• offering little or no hope

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• unpleasantly cold and damp

• causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• crushed by grief

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

• reduce in population

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• causing dejection

• lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise

• causing dejection

• marked by or showing hopelessness

• depressingly dark

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

• shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

• harshly ironic or sinister

• harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• lacking companions or companionship

• marked by dejection from being alone

• characterized by or preferring solitude

• devoid of creatures

• experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

• of things that make you feel sad

• bad; unfortunate

• incapable of reproducing

• free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms

• deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention

• 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