Crossword-Solution: DESOLATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Desolate | a. | Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. |
| Desolate | a. | Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars. |
| Desolate | a. | Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless. |
| Desolate | a. | Lost to shame; dissolute. |
| Desolate | a. | Destitute of; lacking in. |
| Desolate | v. t. | To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood. |
| Desolate | v. t. | To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city. |
We have 180 clues for the answer “DESOLATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Barren, as a landscape | 1 answer |
| Descriptive of a ghost town. | 1 answer |
| Devoid of inhabitants | 1 answer |
| Devoid of life | 1 answer |
| Ghost town-ish | 1 answer |
| Like the Eurasian Steppe | 1 answer |
| ACHERONIAN | 2 answers |
| Brokenhearted | 2 answers |
| Pretty bleak | 2 answers |
| empty of people | 2 answers |
| Like a moonscape | 3 answers |
| treeless | 4 answers |
| Like a ghost town | 4 answers |
| Like ghost towns | 5 answers |
| depopulate | 6 answers |
| Out-of-the-way | 8 answers |
| lorn | 9 answers |
| AN UNINHABITED WILDERNESS THAT IS WORTHLESS FOR CULTIVATION | 10 answers |
| lay waste | 10 answers |
| unvisited | 11 answers |
| uninhabitable | 12 answers |
| Inconsolable | 13 answers |
| depredate | 17 answers |
| stark | 20 answers |
| Fallow | 21 answers |
| Godforsaken | 22 answers |
| lonely | 25 answers |
| Infertile | 25 answers |
| Devoid | 27 answers |
| Woebegone | 29 answers |
| Devastate | 29 answers |
| Despoil | 31 answers |
| MAKE raid | 32 answers |
| Dried up. | 33 answers |
| comfortless | 37 answers |
| deflower | 44 answers |
| Ravage | 47 answers |
| unwed | 50 answers |
| spinsterish | 51 answers |
| uninhabited | 51 answers |
| dishonoured | 52 answers |
| widowed | 52 answers |
| Bleak | 52 answers |
| Uniquely | 53 answers |
| spurned | 53 answers |
| untended | 53 answers |
| Desecrate | 53 answers |
| Arid | 53 answers |
| Compan-ionless | 54 answers |
| disdained | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ARAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with DESOLATE (5)
Instead of watching the ship, however, we must now return to that desolate home from which three of our characters had taken heartless flight so long ago.
But he tasted not, and touched not, Only said to her, “Nokomis, Wait until the sun is setting, Till the darkness falls around us, Till the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, Crying from the desolate marshes, Tells us that the day is ended.” Homeward weeping went Nokomis, Sorrowing for her Hiawatha, Fearing lest his strength should fail him, Lest his fasting should be fatal.
For such vast room in Nature unpossest By living Soule, desert and desolate, Onely to shine, yet scarce to contribute Each Orb a glimps of Light, conveyd so farr Down to this habitable, which returnes Light back to them, is obvious to dispute.
The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.
For, yet a little while, And sound of lamentation shall be heard, Of men and women through thy desolate halls; And all thy neighbor States are leagues to avenge Their mangled warriors who have found a grave I’ the maw of wolf or hound, or winged bird That flying homewards taints their city’s air.
Quotes with DESOLATE (3)
Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love…
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.
The Limit of Happiness Is the Presence of God But it is something great that Abraham asks, namely that God shall not pass by nor remove to a distance and leave his soul desolate and empty (Gen. 18:3). For the limit of happiness is the presence of God, which completely fills the whole soul with his whole incorporeal and eternal light.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 32 times in crossword archives (1953–2022).