desolate
US: /ˈdɛsəˌɫeɪt/, /ˈdɛsəɫət/, /ˈdɛzəɫət/
English Vietnamese dictionary
desolate /'desəlit/
- tính từ
- bị tàn phá, tan hoang, đổ nát
- hoang vắng, không người ở, tiêu điều
- bị ruồng bỏ, bị bỏ rơi; lẻ loi, bơ vơ, cô độc
- đau buồn, buồn phiền, sầu não
- ngoại động từ
- tàn phá, phá huỷ, làm tan hoang
- làm hoang vắng, làm sụt số dân (của một vùng)
- ruồng bỏ, bỏ bơ vơ, bỏ rơi
- làm buồn phiền, làm u sầu, làm phiền muộn; làm thất vọng
Advanced English dictionary
adjective, verb
+ adjective
1 (of a place) empty and without people, making you feel sad or frightened: a bleak and desolate landscape
2 very lonely and unhappy: The thought that her husband did not want the baby made her feel utterly desolate.
+ verb [VN] [usually passive] (literary) to make sb feel sad and without hope: She had been desolated by the death of her friend.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 solitary, lonely, isolated, deserted, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, alone, abandoned, neglected; desert, uninhabited, empty, unfrequented, bare, barren, bleak, remote:
He felt desolate after his wife's death. Tristan da Cunha is a group of four desolate islands in the Atlantic.
2 laid waste, ruined, devastated, ravaged, destroyed:
The explosion left the surrounding countryside desolate.
3 dreary, dismal, wretched, joyless, cheerless, comfortless, miserable, unhappy, down, disconsolate, sad, melancholy, sorrowful, forlorn, mournful, woebegone, gloomy, broken-hearted, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, dejected, downcast, downhearted, dispirited, low-spirited, depressed, melancholy, spiritless, despondent, dismal, distressed, discouraged, hopeless:
He has brought some happiness into her desolate existence.
v.
4 depopulate:
The country was desolated by famine.
5 destroy, devastate, ruin, lay waste, despoil, ravage, demolish, obliterate, annihilate, raze, gut:
Invaders desolated the countryside.
6 dismay, dishearten, depress, daunt, dispirit, sadden, deject, dispirit, discourage:
He was either buoyed up by renewed hope or desolated by despair.
Collocation dictionary
1 empty and depressing
VERBS
be, seem, stand
The house stands desolate and empty.
| become | leave sth
The land was left desolate.
ADV.
completely, quite
The landscape was quite desolate.
| rather
a rather desolate place
2 very unhappy
VERBS
be, feel, look, sound
He looked as desolate as Ruth felt.
| become
ADV.
quite, utterly
She was utterly desolate after losing her baby.
| a little
Her voice sounded a little desolate.
Concise English dictionary
desolates|desolated|desolating'desələt
verb
+leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
+reduce in population
+devastate or ravage
adj.
+providing no shelter or sustenance
+crushed by grief
