Thesaurus
desolate
Synonyms and Antonyms of desolate
- a desolate house abandoned many years ago
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woeful
dim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsetting
desperate, hopeless, pessimistic
lamentable, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful
dour, grim, lowering (also louring), lowery (also loury), menacing, negative, oppressive, threatening
- he was less desolate after adopting a rescue dog
- a desolate mining town that had its brief heyday more than a century ago
- wild, desolate plains on which only the hardiest could survive
barren, bony (also boney), dead, hardscrabble, impoverished, infertile, poor, stark, unfertile, unproductive, waste
Synonym Discussion of desolate
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- everyone needs to be alone sometimes
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- glorying in the calm of her solitary life
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- left solitary by the death of his wife
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- felt lonely and forsaken
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- an only child often leads a lonesome life
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- a lone robin pecking at the lawn
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- a forlorn lost child
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- desolate after her brother's death
desolate
Synonyms and Antonyms of desolate
- totally desolated the city with aerial bombs
beat, best, clobber, conquer, crush, defeat, drub, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), rout, scotch, skunk, subdue, surmount, thrash, trim, triumph (over), trounce, wallop, whip, win (against)
blast, blow up, break, cripple, damage, deface, deteriorate, disfigure, disintegrate, dissolve, dynamite, harm, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mutilate, spoil, vitiate
erode, scour, sweep (away), wash out, wear (away)
dilapidate, disassemble, dismantle, gut, take down, unbuild, undo, unmake
blot out, efface, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root (out), snuff (out), stamp (out), wipe out
despoil, havoc, loot, pillage, plunder, ravage, sack, trample, trash, vandalize
assassinate, butcher, cut down, dispatch, execute, fell, kill, kill off, massacre, mow (down), murder, slaughter, slay, take out, zap
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