Desolate vs Lone - What's the difference?
desolate | lone | 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.
Solitary; having no companion.
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*(William Shenstone) (1714–1763)
*:When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
Sole; being the only one of a type.
Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
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*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
*:By a lone well a lonelier column rears.
(lb) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
(lb) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
*Collection of Records (1642)
*:Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
Desolate is a related term of lone.
As an adjective desolate
is deserted and devoid of inhabitants.As a verb desolate
is to deprive of inhabitants.As a proper noun lone is
.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