Depressing vs Desolate - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between depressing and desolate

is that depressing is causing depression or sadness while desolate is deserted and devoid of inhabitants.

is that depressing is present participle of lang=en while desolate is to deprive of inhabitants.

(en adjective)

Causing depression or sadness.

The television news was depressing , so rather than start crying I turned it off.

* unpleasant

(head)

(en adjective)

Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.

a desolate''' isle; a '''desolate''' wilderness; a '''desolate house

* Bible, Jer. ix. 11

I will make Jerusalem a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate , without an inhabitant.

* Tennyson

And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among.

Barren and lifeless.

Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.

desolate altars

Dismal or dreary.

Sad, forlorn and hopeless.

He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.

* Keble

voice of the poor and desolate

(desolat)

To deprive of inhabitants.

To devastate or lay waste somewhere.

To abandon or forsake something.

To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

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