To render lonely, as a place or region, by depopulation or devastation; make desert; lay waste; ruin; ravage.
To overwhelm with grief; afflict; make very sorry or weary: as, his heart was desolated by his loss; your misfortune desolates me; to be desolated by ennui.
Solitary; lonely; without companionship; forsaken.
Overwhelmed with grief; deprived of comfort; afflicted.
Destitute; lacking.
Destitute of inhabitants; uninhabited; lonely; abandoned: as, a desolate wilderness; desolate altars; desolate towers.
Lost to shame; abandoned; dissolute.
Synonyms Companionless.
Forlorn, cheerless, miserable, wretched.
Abandoned, unfrequented, lonely, waste, wild, barren, dreary.