1 (of a place) empty and without people, making you feel sad or frightened:
a bleak and desolate landscape
2 very lonely and unhappy:
The thought that her husband did not want the baby made her feel utterly desolate.
verb [VN] [usuallypassive] (literary) to make sb feel sad and without hope:
She had been desolated by the death of her friend.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for desolate is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is desolate a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, desolate is tagged as adjective.
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