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desolate:
- délaissé; désolé; abandonné; désert; dépeuplé; mort; à l'abandon
Wiktionary:
- desolate → ravager, désoler
- desolate → désolé
- desolate → désolée, désolé

English

Detailed Translations for desolate from English to French

desolate:

desolate adj

desolate (lonely; deserted; solitary; lonesome; forlorn; sequestered; secluded; isolated)
délaissé; désolé; abandonné
- délaissé adj
- désolé adj
- abandonné adj
desolate (deserted; extinct)
désert; dépeuplé; mort; à l'abandon
- désert adj
- dépeuplé adj
- mort adj
- à l'abandon adj

Translation Matrix for desolate:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
désert		desert; wasteland; wilderness
mort		dead person; death; decease; deceased
Verb	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	abandon; depopulate; desert; devastate; forsake; lay waste to; ravage; scourge; waste
Adjective	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	bare; barren; bleak; stark
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
abandonné	deserted; desolate; forlorn; isolated; lonely; lonesome; secluded; sequestered; solitary	abandoned; ownerless; unattended
délaissé	deserted; desolate; forlorn; isolated; lonely; lonesome; secluded; sequestered; solitary	defenceless; defenseless; forlorn; helpless; impotent; isolated; neglected; powerless; quarantined
dépeuplé	deserted; desolate; extinct
désert	deserted; desolate; extinct	deathlike; deathly; deserted; empty; uncultivated; uninhabited; unpopulated; untilled; vacant
désolé	deserted; desolate; forlorn; isolated; lonely; lonesome; secluded; sequestered; solitary	sorry
mort	deserted; desolate; extinct	dead; deceased; drained; languid; lifeless; listless; passed away; spiritless; washed out
à l'abandon	deserted; desolate; extinct

Related Words for "desolate":

desolateness, desolately, desolation

Synonyms for "desolate":

bare; barren; bleak; stark; inhospitable
inconsolable; disconsolate; unconsolable
abandon; forsake; desert; leave
depopulate; shrink; reduce
lay waste to; waste; devastate; ravage; scourge; destroy; ruin

Related Definitions for "desolate":

crushed by grief¹
- depressed and desolate of soul¹
- a low desolate wail¹
providing no shelter or sustenance¹
- the desolate surface of the moon¹
cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly¹
reduce in population¹
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch¹

Wiktionary Translations for desolate:

desolate

verb

to deprive of inhabitants
- desolate → ravager
to make sad, forlorn and hopeless
- desolate → désoler

desolate

verb

transformer en solitude une région, une ville, en y exercer des ravages.
- désoler → desolate; afflict; distress; aggrieve

adjective

(1) Désert
- désolé → desolate

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• desolate	→ désolée; désolé	↔ desolat — traurig, trostlos, einsam

External Machine Translations:

Related Translations for desolate

desolate surroundings

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University