What is another word for desolate?
1166 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ dˈɛsələt], [ dˈɛsələt], [ d_ˈɛ_s_ə_l_ə_t]Table of Contents
Similar words for desolate:- abandoned (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- alone (adjective)
- bare (adjective)
- barren (adjective)
- bleak (adjective)
- brokenhearted (adjective)
- cheerless (adjective)
- depressed (adjective)
- depressed, despondent (adjective)
- derelict (adjective)
- desert (adjective)
- deserted (adjective)
- disconsolate (adjective)
- dismal (adjective)
- drab (adjective)
- dusky (adjective)
- empty (adjective)
- forlorn (adjective)
- forsaken (adjective)
- gaunt (adjective)
- gloomy (adjective)
- heavy-hearted (adjective)
- homeless (adjective)
- lonely (adjective)
- lorn (adjective)
- melancholic (adjective)
- miserable (adjective)
- run-down (adjective)
- scrubby (adjective)
- shabby (adjective)
- solitary (adjective)
- stark (adjective)
- sterile (adjective)
- stricken (adjective)
- tragic (adjective)
- uncreative (adjective)
- unfrequented (adjective)
- uninhabited (adjective)
- unknown (adjective)
- unused, barren (adjective)
- wild (adjective)
- wintry (adjective)
- solitarily (adverb)
- cast down (noun)
- desolate (noun)
- not cultivated (noun)
- depress (verb)
- desecrate (verb)
- despoil (verb)
- destroy (verb)
- devastate (verb)
- distress (verb)
- harrow (verb)
- ravage (verb)
- ravage, destroy (verb)
- sadden (verb)
- spoil (verb)
- wreak havoc (verb)
- other synonyms
- barren
- depress
- destroy
- in low spirits
Synonyms for Desolate:
adj.
•abandoned (adjective) •all (adjective) •alone (adjective)- more unassisted,
- in-dividual,
- by itself-oneself,
- more unescorted,
- de-solate,
- un aided,
- most unaided,
- unaided,
- un-married,
- most unassisted,
- un married,
- un attended,
- de solate,
- more widowed,
- me myself i,
- staggest,
- most onliest,
- un-aided,
- un assisted,
- un-attached,
- most hermit,
- un-escorted,
- un accompanied,
- un-attended,
- on one own,
- un escorted,
- unmarried,
- by itselfoneself,
- solo,
- in dividual,
- on ones own,
- most unescorted,
- un-assisted,
- un attached,
- by itself oneself,
- more hermit,
- un-accompanied,
- more unaided,
- me my shadow,
- more onliest,
- shaggest,
- most widowed.
- un bearing,
- in-fertile,
- un-productive,
- un fertile,
- most uncultivable,
- in-fecund,
- un-fruitful,
- un-fertile,
- most unfertile,
- more uncultivable,
- in fecund,
- un productive,
- impotent,
- more unfertile,
- un fruitful,
- more unbearing,
- un-cultivable,
- un-bearing,
- most infecund,
- more infecund,
- most unbearing,
- wastest,
- in fertile,
- un cultivable.
- more scorched,
- more bulldozed,
- most blighted,
- weather beaten,
- more windswept,
- ex posed,
- un populated,
- most scorched,
- stripped,
- more deforested,
- more blighted,
- most bulldozed,
- de forested,
- most deforested,
- ex-posed,
- most windswept,
- most unpopulated,
- un sheltered,
- un-populated,
- more unpopulated,
- de-forested,
- un-sheltered.
- draggier,
- mopey,
- mopier,
- mopiest,
- most dejecting,
- un-comfortable,
- woebegone,
- more dejecting,
- draggiest,
- un comfortable,
- most drearisome,
- in dumps,
- funereal,
- jarring,
- more drearisome,
- in the dumps.
- more castoff,
- dis carded,
- most ownerless,
- more ownerless,
- dis-carded,
- neglected,
- most castoff,
- de relict,
- un couth,
- de-relict,
- un-couth,
- most relinquished,
- more relinquished.
- more torn up,
- most tornup,
- in pits,
- most torn-up,
- most torn up,
- more tornup,
- most hurting,
- more torn-up,
- more ripped,
- more hurting,
- tornup,
- most ripped,
- doleful,
- hopeless.
- more disheartening,
- in-auspicious,
- dis heartening,
- dis agreeable,
- inauspicious,
- un happiest,
- over cast,
- un happy,
- over-cast,
- un fortunate,
- overcast,
- most disheartening,
- dis-heartening,
- un-happy,
- in auspicious,
- un-fortunate,
- un happier,
- dis-agreeable.
- most characterless,
- sub-fuse,
- more subfuse,
- most lusterless,
- most subfuse,
- more zero,
- drab,
- more lusterless,
- sub fuse,
- un changing,
- un inspired,
- most zero,
- more characterless,
- un-inspired,
- un-changing.
- more twilight,
- swart,
- more unilluminated,
- more adusk,
- most brunette,
- more dark-complexioned,
- most darkcomplexioned,
- more darkish,
- most twilit,
- most darkish,
- swarter,
- more dark complexioned,
- more crepuscular,
- most dark complexioned,
- more lightless,
- most dark-complexioned,
- darkcomplexioned,
- most adusk,
- un illuminated,
- un-illuminated,
- dark complexioned,
- most crepuscular,
- most twilight,
- most unilluminated,
- swartest,
- most lightless,
- more twilit,
- more darkcomplexioned.
- more evacuated,
- un-filled,
- de void,
- un occupied,
- un filled,
- most despoiled,
- most evacuated,
- more vacated,
- more despoiled,
- de-void,
- un-occupied,
- most vacated,
- empty,
- unfilled.
- more disowned,
- most ignored,
- left at altar,
- more ignored,
- more marooned,
- left the altar,
- dis owned,
- left altar,
- most disowned,
- most marooned,
- most outcast,
- more outcast,
- dis-owned,
- out-cast,
- out cast.
- more pinched,
- scraggier,
- like bag bones,
- peakiest,
- peakier,
- most attenuated,
- most pinched,
- more skeleton,
- more attenuated,
- like bag of bones,
- skin bones,
- most skeleton,
- forbidding,
- like a bag bones.
- most dragged,
- more moping,
- more mirthless,
- more unlit,
- most unlit,
- down the dumps,
- more dragged,
- more acheronian,
- most moping,
- more mopish,
- most depressive,
- more saddening,
- more acherontic,
- more chapfallen,
- broodier,
- most mirthless,
- most acherontic,
- most overclouded,
- most crabbed,
- down the mouth,
- over-clouded,
- most mopish,
- more depressive,
- most acheronian,
- broodiest,
- over clouded,
- most saddening,
- more overclouded,
- down mouth,
- most chapfallen,
- down dumps.
- more cast-down,
- more at,
- most cast down,
- castdown,
- most bleeding,
- most castdown,
- heavy hearted,
- most at,
- more bleeding,
- more cast down,
- more castdown,
- most cast-down.
- more houseless,
- more banished,
- more refugee,
- most vagrant,
- more uncaredfor,
- uncared-for,
- unwelcome,
- more disinherited,
- dis inherited,
- un housed,
- most disinherited,
- more unhoused,
- most exiled,
- dis-placed,
- dis placed,
- de-ported,
- most refugee,
- more estranged,
- most unhoused,
- most dispossessed,
- most estranged,
- more exiled,
- un welcome,
- dis possessed,
- un-welcome,
- most uncared for,
- more deported,
- de ported,
- uncaredfor,
- dis-inherited,
- more uncared for,
- more vagrant,
- dis-possessed,
- more dispossessed,
- most deported,
- most houseless,
- un-housed,
- un settled,
- un-settled,
- more uncared-for,
- most banished,
- most uncared-for,
- without roof,
- most uncaredfor.
- most renounced,
- retired,
- most troglodytic,
- more renounced,
- most uncherished,
- more unbefriended,
- re-mote,
- more unsocial,
- un social,
- re-tired,
- un-cherished,
- more troglodytic,
- more sequestered,
- re moved,
- most apart,
- re tired,
- more reclusive,
- most unbefriended,
- with drawn,
- with-drawn,
- more apart,
- most unsocial,
- un cherished,
- un-befriended,
- un-social,
- un befriended,
- most sequestered,
- more uncherished.
- cast aside,
- cast away,
- pigeon-holed,
- left in the cold,
- on the rocks,
- sidelined,
- side-tracked,
- given up,
- passed up.
- dis-contented,
- Racked,
- more agonized,
- more tormented,
- ruthful,
- most agonized,
- most anguished,
- more suffering,
- more tortured,
- most discontented,
- pained,
- most racked,
- more anguished,
- most tormented,
- most suffering,
- on downer,
- most tortured,
- wounded,
- more racked,
- dis contented.
- more down at the heel,
- more beat-up,
- under weather,
- more beatup,
- most down at the heel,
- most tumble down,
- out condition,
- brokendown,
- more down-at-the-heel,
- more dogeared,
- more beat up,
- un-healthy,
- in bad way,
- most tumble-down,
- most beat up,
- un healthiest,
- dogeared,
- most dog-eared,
- un-healthiest,
- more dog eared,
- dog eared,
- frowzy,
- un tended,
- rickety,
- more tumble-down,
- most untended,
- un healthy,
- more dog-eared,
- more untended,
- beatup,
- most down-at-the-heel,
- most dogeared,
- tumble down,
- tumble-down,
- most dog eared,
- more tumble down,
- un healthier,
- most beat-up,
- un-tended,
- most beatup.
- dis figured,
- de generated,
- dis reputable,
- more degenerated,
- be draggled,
- more disfigured,
- more frayed,
- gone seed,
- more deteriorating,
- most degenerated,
- motheaten,
- most deteriorating,
- dis-figured,
- most frayed,
- most disfigured,
- povertystricken,
- poverty stricken,
- be-draggled,
- dis-reputable,
- de-generated.
- more eremetic,
- mis-anthropic,
- most hermitical,
- most uncompanionable,
- un approachable,
- un-companionable,
- mis anthropic,
- re served,
- more hermitical,
- un-approachable,
- un companionable,
- more uncompanionable,
- solitary,
- anti social,
- re-served,
- most eremetic.
- un clothed,
- most unclothed,
- un-clad,
- more unclothed,
- un draped,
- more undraped,
- most undraped,
- un-clothed,
- un-draped,
- un clad,
- un covered.
- most septic,
- more pasteurized,
- more germfree,
- most decontaminated,
- un-infected,
- dis infected,
- more germ-free,
- germ free,
- most unprolific,
- more septic,
- most pasteurized,
- more unprolific,
- more decontaminated,
- more disinfected,
- anti-septic,
- most uninfected,
- most germ free,
- un profitable,
- most germfree,
- dis-infected,
- without issue,
- un infected,
- more germ free,
- most disinfected,
- anti septic,
- un-prolific,
- un prolific,
- more uninfected,
- de-contaminated,
- most germ-free,
- de contaminated.
- more heart-stricken,
- more heart struck,
- most heart stricken,
- most heart struck,
- most heartstruck,
- most heart-stricken,
- heart struck,
- most heart-struck,
- more heart-struck,
- more heart stricken,
- over come,
- more heartstricken,
- Heartstruck,
- heart stricken,
- most heartstricken,
- more heartstruck.
- ill starred,
- most heart-rending,
- more heart-rending,
- ill-starred,
- more heart rending,
- most heart rending,
- illstarred,
- more crushing,
- heart rending,
- ill fated,
- illfated,
- most crushing.
- unrevealed,
- unrecognized,
- such-and-such,
- so-and-so,
- unidentified,
- far off,
- Unapprehended,
- little known,
- Unascertained,
- Unrenowned,
- Incog,
- uncelebrated,
- unnoted,
- such and such,
- unperceived,
- so and so,
- unheard of,
- unexplained.
adv.
•solitarily (adverb)n.
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- keep.
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- melancholy,
- downcast,
- sad.
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- help.
- cast.
v.
•depress (verb)- de-graded,
- dis courage,
- dis heartens,
- de pressed,
- dis courages,
- de pressing,
- de grade,
- de solating,
- re-duce,
- dis-may,
- up-set,
- de-presses,
- de vitalizing,
- de-grading,
- throws cold water on,
- de-grades,
- dis-mays,
- de solated,
- de graded,
- de vitalize,
- up-setting,
- de-grade,
- reduced tears,
- de-based,
- threw cold water on,
- reduces to tears,
- casts down,
- de-pressing,
- co-wed,
- dis hearten,
- co-wing,
- re duces,
- turns one off,
- de-vitalized,
- up setting,
- keeping under,
- de grades,
- de-vitalize,
- up-sets,
- de solates,
- de presses,
- re-duces,
- beats down,
- beating down,
- up sets,
- turning one off,
- de vitalizes,
- reduce tears,
- dis heartened,
- de based,
- reducing to tears,
- dis mays,
- dis-maying,
- dis-hearten,
- de-basing,
- throwing cold water on,
- dis-mayed,
- de-pressed,
- de-solating,
- de-vitalizing,
- de press,
- re duce,
- bumming out,
- dis maying,
- dis-courage,
- reducing tears,
- dis mayed,
- dis may,
- turned one off,
- co wing,
- de-solated,
- de-base,
- bums out,
- co wed,
- de-press,
- de basing,
- dis-heartens,
- de vitalized,
- de base,
- reduces tears,
- de-solates,
- de grading,
- reduced to tears,
- dis-courages,
- dis-heartened,
- de-vitalizes.
- de predate,
- committed sacrilege,
- be-foul,
- de predated,
- be-fouls,
- dis honoring,
- de-filed,
- be fouled,
- pro fanes,
- de-files,
- dis-honored,
- pro-fanes,
- be-fouling,
- de predates,
- de file,
- dis honor,
- de-file,
- dis-honors,
- dis honors,
- makes lose face,
- de predating,
- pro fane,
- dis honored,
- making lose face,
- de-predated,
- dis-honor,
- be fouling,
- be-fouled,
- be foul,
- commits sacrilege,
- de-predates,
- de-filing,
- made lose face,
- pro-fane,
- be fouls,
- de filed,
- dis-honoring,
- de filing,
- committing sacrilege,
- de files,
- de-predating,
- de-predate.
- de-populates,
- de-spoils,
- de-populating,
- dis-possessing,
- dis-possess,
- de spoil,
- de-nude,
- de-spoil,
- de-spoiled,
- de populated,
- de populates,
- de-populated,
- dis-possesses,
- de spoiling,
- de nude,
- dis possesses,
- de spoils,
- de-nudes,
- de nudes,
- de populating,
- de-spoiling,
- dis possessing,
- de populate,
- dis possess,
- de spoiled,
- de-populate.
- eradicate,
- disintegrate,
- flatten,
- rip to shreds,
- extirpate,
- bulldoze,
- tear down,
- pulverize,
- abolish,
- dismantle,
- demolish,
- level,
- annihilate,
- mow down,
- decimate,
- smash,
- raze,
- vaporize,
- wreck,
- exterminate,
- atomize,
- lay waste.
- doeth one in,
- doest one in,
- takes apart,
- wipe map,
- wipes map,
- wiping off map,
- does one in,
- wiped map,
- doing one in,
- wiping map,
- wipes off map,
- dost one in,
- did one in,
- didst one in,
- wiped off map,
- doth one in.
- dis-quieted,
- being one's case,
- were one case,
- made it tough for,
- is case,
- be one's case,
- am on ones case,
- dis tressed,
- nit-picked,
- am one case,
- doest number on,
- am on one case,
- does number on,
- am one's case,
- are on one's case,
- gives hard time,
- pushes buttons,
- be ones case,
- didst number on,
- wast ones case,
- is on case,
- doing number on,
- dis-tresses,
- dis quieting,
- be on ones case,
- is ones case,
- doeth a number on,
- doth number on,
- making it tough for,
- was one's case,
- doeth number on,
- giving hard time,
- dis-tress,
- are case,
- are one's case,
- dis quieted,
- pushing buttons,
- were one's case,
- gat to,
- art ones case,
- dis-quiets,
- wert ones case,
- gave a hard time,
- makes it tough for,
- being on case,
- be on case,
- wert on one case,
- ticks off,
- gives a hard time,
- didst a number on,
- is on one's case,
- be one case,
- am case,
- wert case,
- were ones case,
- dost number on,
- dost a number on,
- did number on,
- are on one case,
- gotten to,
- be on one case,
- am on one's case,
- doth a number on,
- is one case,
- make tough for,
- was case,
- being on one's case,
- wert on one's case,
- being on ones case,
- nit pick,
- ticking off,
- nit picks,
- doest a number on,
- was on one's case,
- made tough for,
- did a number on,
- nit picking,
- am on case,
- wast case,
- dis tress,
- makes tough for,
- dis quiet,
- wast on ones case,
- being one case,
- picks on,
- were on one's case,
- wast one case,
- being case,
- art one's case,
- giving a hard time,
- was ones case,
- nit picked,
- wert on case,
- pushed buttons,
- wast on one's case,
- dis tresses,
- is one's case,
- does a number on,
- am ones case,
- is on one case,
- dis quiets,
- were on ones case,
- dis-tressed,
- dis-quieting,
- is on ones case,
- are one case,
- wast on one case,
- nit-picks,
- burns up,
- were case,
- making tough for,
- are ones case,
- wert one's case,
- wert one case,
- are on ones case,
- doing a number on,
- was on case,
- be case,
- being ones case,
- dis-quiet,
- was on one case,
- are on case,
- were on one case,
- wert on ones case,
- being on one case,
- gave hard time,
- was on ones case,
- wast on case,
- art case,
- wast one's case,
- were on case,
- give hard time,
- was one case,
- burnt up.
- over whelmed,
- over-thrown,
- leaves in ruins,
- over throwing,
- leaved in ruins,
- dis-organizing,
- sweeping away,
- over whelming,
- over thrown,
- dis-organized,
- over-whelmed,
- dis-organize,
- sweeps away,
- leaving ruins,
- leaves ruins,
- leaving in ruins,
- over whelms,
- left ruins,
- leaved ruins,
- over whelm,
- over-whelming,
- over-throwing,
- over-whelm,
- over throws,
- leave ruins,
- over throw,
- dis-organizes,
- over-whelms,
- dis organized,
- dis organize,
- over-throws,
- over running,
- dis organizing,
- over runs,
- left in ruins,
- dis organizes,
- over-throw.
- brings one down,
- puts a damper on,
- brake ones heart,
- breaks one heart,
- breaking one heart,
- broke heart,
- puts into funk,
- put into funk,
- puts into a funk,
- putting into funk,
- brought one down,
- put in to funk,
- break heart,
- putting into a funk,
- putting damper on,
- brake one heart,
- dampens spirits,
- brake heart,
- breaks one's heart,
- break one heart,
- breaking one's heart,
- puts in to a funk,
- breaks heart,
- putting in to a funk,
- making blue,
- makes blue,
- break ones heart,
- dragged down,
- breaks ones heart,
- putting in to funk,
- breaking heart,
- bringing one down,
- puts in to funk,
- broke one's heart,
- broke ones heart,
- dampening spirits,
- putting a damper on,
- dampened spirits,
- puts damper on,
- brake one's heart,
- breaking ones heart,
- drags down,
- put in to a funk,
- made blue,
- broke one heart.
- made useless,
- un did,
- makes useless,
- un-doing,
- un-did,
- dis gracing,
- dis-grace,
- making useless,
- mucking up,
- dis grace,
- dis graced,
- dis-gracing,
- un-does,
- dis-figures,
- dis figure,
- un doing,
- dis-figuring,
- dis-graced,
- dis figures,
- dis graces,
- mucks up,
- un done,
- dis figuring,
- un does,
- dis-figure,
- dis-graces.
Other synonyms:
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- tenebrific,
- abandoned.
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- dark.
- arid.
- throw cold water on,
- turn one off,
- keeps under,
- kept under,
- Damped,
- up set,
- reduce to tears,
- beat down,
- cast down,
- perturb,
- keep under,
- Damping,
- casting down,
- bum out,
- dulls,
- Dulling,
- DAMPS.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
deserted.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
bleak, devastating, disappointing.
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Adjective
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Antonyms for Desolate:
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adj.
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unused, barren
happy, pleased, cultivated, inhabited, intact, full, bright, cherished, pleasant, populated, protected, loved, cheerful, Befriended, used.
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Other antonyms:
hospitable, saved, heartwarming, attended, rescued, consolable, hopeful, arable, redeemed, encouraging, optimistic, recovered, accompanied, lighthearted, rehabilitated, rich, reclaimed, tillable, rehabbed, verdant, green, restored, productive, reconditioned, sunshiny, lightsome, comforting, sylvan, fruitful, friendly, cordial, luxuriant, salvaged, fertile, lush, buoyant.
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unused, barren
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Homophones for Desolate:
- desalt, Decollate, docility, dazzled, dissolute, dogsled, de-escalate, disloyalty, deckled, decollete, dishcloth, dog sled.