DESOLATE vs DESERT: NOUN
- N/A
- A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.
- That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward
- A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
- A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa which are destitute of moisture and vegetation.
- That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
- = Syn, Wilderness, Desert. Strictly, a wilderness is a wild, unreclaimed region, uninhabited and uncultivated, while a desert is largely uncultivable and uninhabitable owing to lack of moisture. A wilderness may be full of luxuriant vegetation. In a great majority of the places where desert occurs in the authorized version of the Bible, the revised version changes it to wilderness.
- A desert place or region; a waste; a wilderness; specifically, in geography, a region of considerable extent which is almost if not quite destitute of vegetation, and hence uninhabited, chiefly on account of an insufficient supply of rain: as, the desert of Sahara; the Great American Desert.
- An arid region with little or no vegetation
- Arid land with little or no vegetation
- See dessert.
- Specifically — In phytogeography, one of the three principal types of Schimper's climatic formations, the result of excessive drought or cold. In desert all surviving vegetation is stunted and the difference between woodland and grass-land (the other two grand types) is obliterated.
- Synonyms Desert, Merit, Worth. Desert expresses most and worth least of the thought or expectation of reward. None of them suggests an actual claim. He is a man of great worth or excellence; intellectual worth; moral worth; the merits of the piece are small; he is not likely to get his deserts.
- Any barren place or situation.
- A deserving; that which makes one deserving of reward or punishment; merit or demerit; good conferred, or evil inflicted, which merits an equivalent return: as, to reward or punish men according to their deserts.
- That which is deserved; reward or penalty merited.
DESOLATE vs DESERT: ADJECTIVE
- Crushed by grief
- Dismal or dreary.
- Made unfit for habitation or use.
- Barren and lifeless.
- Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
- Destitute of; lacking in.
- Made uninhabitable
- Providing no shelter or sustenance
- Lost to shame; dissolute.
- Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
- Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed.
- Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy
- Devoid of inhabitants; deserted.
- Barren; lifeless.
- Feeling, showing, causing, or expressing sadness or loneliness. : sad.
- Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
- Pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment
- Abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited; usually of a place.
- An American mouse (Hesperomys eremicus), living in the Western deserts.
- A small hare (Lepus sylvaticus, var. Arizonæ) inhabiting the deserts of the Western United States.
- The assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently unproductive place.
- Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary.
- Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
DESOLATE vs DESERT: VERB
- Reduce in population
- Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
- Devastate or ravage
- To deprive of inhabitants.
- To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
- To abandon or forsake something.
- To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
- Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission.
- To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake.
- Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
- Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army
- Leave behind
DESOLATE vs DESERT: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.
DESOLATE vs DESERT: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To rid or deprive of inhabitants.
- To lay waste; devastate.
- To forsake; abandon.
- To make lonely, forlorn, or wretched.
- To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage.
- To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants.
- To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from
- To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities.
DESOLATE vs DESERT: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Abandoned, unfrequented, lonely, waste, wild, barren, dreary.
- Forlorn, cheerless, miserable, wretched.
- Synonyms Companionless.
- Lost to shame; abandoned; dissolute.
- Destitute of inhabitants; uninhabited; lonely; abandoned: as, a desolate wilderness; desolate altars; desolate towers.
- Destitute; lacking.
- Overwhelmed with grief; deprived of comfort; afflicted.
- Solitary; lonely; without companionship; forsaken.
- To overwhelm with grief; afflict; make very sorry or weary: as, his heart was desolated by his loss; your misfortune desolates me; to be desolated by ennui.
- To render lonely, as a place or region, by depopulation or devastation; make desert; lay waste; ruin; ravage.
- Leave in the lurch
- To abandon, either in a good or a bad sense; forsake; hence, to cast off or prove recreant to: as, to desert a falling house; a deserted village; to desert a friend or a cause.
- To leave without permission; forsake; escape from, as the service in which one is engaged, in violation of duty: as, to desert an army; to desert one's colors; to desert a ship.
- To quit a service or post without permission; run away: as, to desert from the army.
- Deserted; uncultivated; waste; barren; uninhabited.
- Pertaining to or belonging to a desert; inhabiting a desert: as, the desert folk.
- Leave in the lurch
- (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment
DESOLATE vs DESERT: RELATED WORDS
- Inconsolable, Ruined, Depopulate, Bare, Devastated, Forsaken, Ravaged, Stark, Disconsolate, Bleak, Desert, Inhospitable, Godforsaken, Forlorn, Barren
- Desertification, Sand, Oasis, Wasteland, Wilderness, Saharan, Defect, Lurch, Waste, Abandon, Forsake, Wild, Inhospitable, Godforsaken, Desolate
DESOLATE vs DESERT: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Inconsolable, Ruined, Depopulate, Bare, Devastated, Forsaken, Ravaged, Stark, Disconsolate, Bleak, Desert, Inhospitable, Godforsaken, Forlorn, Barren
- Desertification, Sand, Oasis, Wasteland, Wilderness, Saharan, Defect, Lurch, Waste, Abandon, Forsake, Wild, Inhospitable, Godforsaken, Desolate
DESOLATE vs DESERT: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- It causes every growing desolate and desert spots.
- Garden of Eden, behind them a desolate wilderness.
- Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
- Return and Rebuild the Desolate Places, Alan Hovhaness.
- Where will I go in this desolate scene?
- Yes, the landscape in Antarctica is quite desolate.
- He shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
- 36:34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
- Egypt desolate, and the country shall be desolate of that whereof it was full.
- Egypt desolate, and it will be surrounded by other desolate nations.
- The desert sage is one of the most beautiful desert wildflowers.
- Successful applicant will have interests in landscape ecology, desert ecology, desert geomorphology, and remote sensing.
- Nature looks good in desert, full stars night look awesome in desert.
- Desert Vista Village, formerly known as the Desert Vista Trailer Park, on Oct.
- The illustrations are of a desert landscape changing desert gullies awash with sustaining water.
- DESERT Desert terrain, demanding and difficult to traverse, often provides very few landmarks.
- Gobi Desert, a desert that extends into the independent country of Mongolia.
- Desert Auto is a used car dealership in Palm Desert, California.
- Reg, a desert soil limited to the desert plainsand valleys.
- Comparative desert is not the same as equal desert.
DESOLATE vs DESERT: QUESTIONS
- How do you describe walking alone down a desolate street?
- What is the meaning of primordial sea and desolate land?
- Is there a dwarf vs Zombie server in desolate lands?
- Why is Somalia desert the only desert near the equator?
- What part of the Sahara Desert is the Libyan Desert?
- How big is the Palm Desert Resort condo in Palm Desert?
- What is the niche of a desert tortoise in the desert?
- How do you get worn desert sand ring in arcane desert ring?
- What role did submarines play in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm?
- What do I need for the kharidian Desert - Desert Treasure?
- How does a desert horned lizard adapt in the desert?
- How are the desert and desert scrub similar biomes?
- What happened in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm?