Definitions For Desolate

verb

  • Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
  • Reduce in population
  • Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
  • To make (someone) feel very sad and lonely for a long time
  • To damage (a place) in such a way that it is no longer suitable for people to live in

adjective

  • Crushed by grief
  • Providing no shelter or sustenance

Is Desolates a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
11

The word Desolate is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Desolate in a Sentence

  • A desolate house abandoned many years ago
  • Destitute and desolate since her husband walked out on her
  • Totally desolated the city with aerial bombs

Synonyms for Desolate

Antonyms for Desolates

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