Desolate vs Friendless - What's the difference?

Desolate is a related term of friendless.

is that desolate is deserted and devoid of inhabitants while friendless is without friends.

is to deprive of inhabitants.

(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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Without friends.

The friendless girl cries frequently.

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