desolate

Meanings

Adjective

• Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
• Barren and lifeless.
• Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc.
• Dismal or dreary.
• Sad, forlorn and hopeless.

Verb

• To deprive of inhabitants.
• To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
• To abandon or forsake something.
• To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

Origin

• From Middle English desolate, from Latin desolatus, past participle of desolare, from solus.