Definitions for "Desolate"
Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.
Destitute of; lacking in.
Keywords:  barren, rocky, stark, bleak, sustenance
Barren or lifeless. (eg. the rocky, desolate surface of the moon.)
providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.
pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn"
Keywords:  wail, grief, crushed, soul, depressed
crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail"
Keywords:  shame, dissolute, lost
Lost to shame; dissolute.