Antonyms for desolate
ˈdɛs ə lɪt; -ˌleɪtdes·o·late

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1. desolateadjective

   Antonyms:
   cheered, cheerful, consoled, attended, cultivated, sheltered, fertile, luxuriant, animated, lively, gay, frequented

   Synonyms:
   bereaved, forlorn, forsaken, comfortless, deserted, uninhabited, desert, wild, waste, bare, bleak, lonely

2. desolateverb

   Antonyms:
   people, colonize, plant, develop, fertilize, cultivate, enrich, enliven

   Synonyms:
   waste, spoil, sack, plunder, pillage, ravage, devastate, depopulate

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1. bare, barren, bleak, desolate, starkadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   consolable, hospitable

   Synonyms:
   spare, bare(a), devoid, perfect(a), consummate(a), blunt, unornamented, austere, au naturel(p), bare, raw, marginal, arrant(a), black, severe, gross(a), staring(a), simple(a), stripped, destitute, mere(a), cutting, everlasting(a), double-dyed(a), crude(a), dim, complete(a), innocent, plain, nude, unsheathed, pure(a), unfinished, barren, stark(a), unadulterated, thoroughgoing(a), free, naked, bleak, unembellished, sodding(a), scanty, stark, utter(a), stern

2. desolateverb

   crushed by grief

   "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail"

   Antonyms:
   hospitable, consolable

   Synonyms:
   stark, barren, bleak, bare

3. abandon, forsake, desolate, desertverb

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

   "The mother deserted her children"

   Antonyms:
   hospitable, consolable

   Synonyms:
   waste, devastate, give up, desert, lay waste to, abandon, vacate, scourge, empty, depopulate, defect, forsake, ravage

4. depopulate, desolateverb

   reduce in population

   "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"

   Antonyms:
   hospitable, consolable

   Synonyms:
   waste, ravage, devastate, desert, abandon, scourge, lay waste to, depopulate, forsake

5. lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourgeverb

   cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

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

   Antonyms:
   consolable, hospitable

   Synonyms:
   waste, harry, scourge, emaciate, flagellate, abandon, blow, forsake, run off, devastate, desert, neutralise, pine away, neutralize, consume, macerate, ware, depopulate, languish, liquidate, squander, ravage, do in, rot, knock off, lay waste to

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1. desolateadjective

   Synonyms:
   dreary, waste, broken-hearted, inconsolable, solitary, devastated

2. desolateverb

   Synonyms:
   devastate, depredate, despoil, sack, lay waste

How to use desolate in a sentence?

1. Arthur O'Shaunessey:

   We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.

2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

   How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

3. George Eliot:

   No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

4. Candice Cooley:

   Dylan had a farm, Dylan had a goal, and he had a drive in life so that he would absolutely not let anything, anything, take him away, this is a kid that the last three years has been out in the desolate desert tearing out new ground.

5. Chris Cabrera:

   It's very desolate, very remote.

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