desolate

  • (s) 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
    barren, bleak, stark, bare,
  • (s) crushed by grief
    • depressed and desolate of soul
    • a low desolate wail

Verbs

  • (v) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
    • The mother deserted her children
    desert, forsake, abandon,
  • (v) reduce in population
    • The epidemic depopulated the countryside
    depopulate,
  • (v) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
    • The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion
    devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste,

Synonyms

barren bleak stark bare desert forsake abandon depopulate devastate lay waste to ravage scourge waste

Words of close approximity

desolately