Desolate vs Forgotten - What's the difference?
desolate | forgotten | Related terms |
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.
A person or thing that has been forgotten.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 31, author=Alan Feuer, title=Headliners of 07: A Subway Savior, Rampaging Rats, and a $12 Million Dog, work=New York Times
, passage=Luckily for these unfortunate forgottens , New Year is approaching, a time when, despite the intuitions of the calendar, our thoughts often turn to the past. }}
English adjectives ending in -en
English irregular past participles
Desolate is a related term of forgotten.
As adjectives the difference between desolate and forgotten
is that desolate is deserted and devoid of inhabitants while forgotten is of which knowledge has been lost; which is no longer remembered.As verbs the difference between desolate and forgotten
is that desolate is to deprive of inhabitants while forgotten is .As a noun forgotten is
a person or thing that has been forgotten.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
(desolat)External links
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