Synonyms:
bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
The hearth is desolate.
It arose from her being so desolate.
The desolate and grim old man did not relax.
APRIL 16.-The desolate pilgrimage was not long.
But Gawayne chose the lower road, and passed Along the desolate shore.
She did not know why, but she had never before felt so depressed, so desolate.
And as I stared at this desolate wreckage, Captain Nemo told me in a solemn voice:
Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world.
There was something too depressing in finding the old hut in such a desolate condition.
She is left very desolate, for all their children are married and settled at a distance.