Desolate vs Dispirited - What's the difference?
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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.
(dispirit)
Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.
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As adjectives the difference between desolate and dispirited
is that desolate is deserted and devoid of inhabitants while dispirited is without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.As verbs the difference between desolate and dispirited
is that desolate is to deprive of inhabitants while dispirited is past tense of dispirit.desolate
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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
Verb
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- So dispirited were the troops after the loss of their beloved commander that they moped about and could barely be bothered to eat let alone load their guns.
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