Definition of desolate

"desolate" in the verb sense

1. abandon, forsake, desolate, desert

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

"The mother deserted her children"

2. depopulate, desolate

reduce in population

"The epidemic depopulated the countryside"

3. lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge

cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

"The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"

"desolate" in the adjective sense

1. bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark

providing no shelter or sustenance

"bare rocky hills"

"barren lands"

"the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"

"the desolate surface of the moon"

"a stark landscape"

2. desolate

crushed by grief

"depressed and desolate of soul"

"a low desolate wail"

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Quotations for desolate

No one is so accursed by fate,
No one so utterly desolate,
But some heart, though unknown,
Responds unto his own. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Existence may be borne, and the deep root
Of life and sufferance make its firm abode
In bare and desolate bosoms: mute
The camel labors with the heaviest load.
And the wolf dies in silence: Not bestowed
In vain should such examples be; if they.
Things of ignoble or of savage mood,
Endure and shrink not, we of nobler clay
May temper it to bear - it is but for a day. [ Byron ]

She wept to feel her life so desolate,
And wept still more because the world had made it
So desolate: yet was the world her all;
She loathed it, but she knew it was her all. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]

The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate. [ Ouida ]

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human-being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. [ George Eliot ]

What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven? [ Mrs. Balfour ]

O poets! what injury you have done us, and how right Plato was to banish you from his republic! How your ambrosia has rendered more bitter our absinth! How have we found our lives more barren and more desolate, after having turned our eyes toward the sublime perspectives which your dreams have opened in the infinite! [ T. Gautier ]

desolate in Scrabble®

The word desolate is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters desolate:

DESOLATE
(90)
DESOLATE
(90)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (3 words)

delates, elodeas, oleates

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word desolate

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In desolate

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desolate in Words With Friends™

The word desolate is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters desolate:

DELATES
(86 = 51 + 35)
ELODEAS
(86 = 51 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (3 words)

delates, elodeas, oleates

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word desolate

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In desolate

DELATES
(86 = 51 + 35)
ELODEAS
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(84)
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Words containing the sequence desolate

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Word Growth involving desolate

Shorter words in desolate

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Longer words containing desolate

desolated

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