Desolate vs Dolorous - 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.
Solemnly or ponderously sad.
* 1596 , , The Faerie Queene , Book 5, Canto 4:
* 1645 , , "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity", stanza 14:
* 1859 , , A Tale of Two Cities , ch. 30:
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Desolate is a related term of dolorous.
As adjectives the difference between desolate and dolorous
is that desolate is deserted and devoid of inhabitants while dolorous is solemnly or ponderously sad.As a verb desolate
is to deprive of inhabitants.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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Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- Through dolorous despaire, which she conceyved,
- Into the Sea her selfe did headlong throw,
- Thinking to have her griefe by death bereaved.
- . . . Hell itself will pass away,
- And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
- From this prison here of horror, whence I every hour tend nearer and nearer to destruction, I send you . . . the assurance of my dolorous and unhappy service.
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- As World War II came to a close, the gaunt and dolorous child was liberated at yet another death camp, Buchenwald.