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Desolate

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Definition

Desolate means feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness. It can also mean deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness.

Synonyms & similar words

ravage abandon laywasteto bleak stark barren devastate depopulate forsake scourge desert waste bare barren bleak deserted empty forlorn lonely uninhabited dreary gloomy isolated solitary unpopulated uninhabitable unpeopled unvisited waste wild godforsaken joyless sorrowful

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