Skip to main content

desolately

/adjective des-uh-lit; verb des-uh-leyt/US // adjective ˈdɛs ə lɪt; verb ˈdɛs əˌleɪt //

怅然若失,怅然,怅然若失地,怅惘地

Related Words

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
    • : deprived or destitute of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited.
    • : solitary; lonely: a desolate life.
    • : having the feeling of being abandoned by friends or by hope; forlorn.
    • : dreary; dismal; gloomy: desolate prospects.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    des·o·lat·ed, des·o·lat·ing.

    • : to lay waste; devastate.
    • : to deprive of inhabitants; depopulate.
    • : to make disconsolate.
    • : to forsake or abandon.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Without any money for additional workers, the couple worked the desolate fields all day, likening themselves to Adam and Eve.

  • With visitors expected to adhere to strict quarantine rules, or banned from visiting countries altogether, once busy airports and hotels have become desolate.

  • What should be a joyous and celebratory event has turned into a desolate scene where millions fear for the safety of the incoming president and vice president.

  • Because the moon is a desolate place with no atmosphere, its surface is a pristine record of meteorite impacts over time.

  • For two hours she sat desolately on the horse block and then sadly entered the house with a cold in her head.

  • As the light broke over the bay, coldly pink and desolately gleaming, Captain Joe got up and looked about him.

  • For with all her activity and with all the attention she seemed to receive, Cordelia's life was still a desolately lonely one.

  • It was a gloomy winter's day, the waters rolled on black and sullen, and the dry leaves rustled desolately beneath my feet.

  • She stayed all day in a flat, desolately quiet, waiting for one moment when the dearest and best came home.