Apathetic vs Desolate - What's the difference?
apathetic | desolate |
Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.
Of, or pertaining to apatheism.
Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
* Bible, Jer. ix. 11
* Tennyson
Barren and lifeless.
Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
Dismal or dreary.
Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
* Keble
To deprive of inhabitants.
To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
To abandon or forsake something.
To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
As adjectives the difference between apathetic and desolate
is that apathetic is void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent while desolate is deserted and devoid of inhabitants.As a verb desolate is
to deprive of inhabitants.apathetic
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Alternative forms
* apatheticalAdjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* indifferent. impassiveReferences
* English terms with alpha privativesdesolate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- a desolate''' isle; a '''desolate''' wilderness; a '''desolate house
- I will make Jerusalem a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate , without an inhabitant.
- And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among.
- desolate altars
- He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
- voice of the poor and desolate
