Desolate vs Helpless - What's the difference?
desolate | helpless | 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.
Unable to defend oneself or to act without help.
* 1995 , (Bryan Adams),
Uncontrollable.
Desolate is a related term of helpless.
As adjectives the difference between desolate and helpless
is that desolate is deserted and devoid of inhabitants while helpless is unable to defend oneself or to act without help.As a verb desolate
is to deprive of inhabitants.desolate
English
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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* * * ----helpless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Then when you find yourself lyin' helpless in her arms
- You know you really love a woman