desolate - Similar and Opposite Words

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Verb

cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

Synonyms

• desolate
• devastate
• lay waste to
• ravage
• scourge
• waste

More generic

• destroy
• ruin

More specific

• ruin

Verb

reduce in population

Synonyms

• depopulate
• desolate

More generic

• reduce
• shrink

Verb

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

Synonyms

• abandon
• desert
• desolate
• forsake

More generic

• leave

More specific

• ditch
• expose
• maroon
• strand
• walk out

Adjective

crushed by grief

Synonyms

• desolate

Related

• disconsolate
• inconsolable
• unconsolable

Adjective

providing no shelter or sustenance

Synonyms

• bare
• barren
• bleak
• desolate
• stark

Related

• inhospitable

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