Desolate vs Melancholic - What's the difference?
desolate | melancholic |
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.
Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
* Prior
A person who is habitually melancholy.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 16, author=Garrison Keillor, title=Woe Be Gone, work=New York Times
, passage=Kafka, Hart Crane, Jackson Pollock , Tennessee Williams , Mark Rothko , melancholics all, so why shouldn’t we accept our own bleakness and take long walks in the winter woods and look at the gnarled limbs of trees and struggle with the inscrutable and accept the beauty of permanent turmoil? }}
As adjectives the difference between desolate and melancholic
is that desolate is deserted and devoid of inhabitants while melancholic is filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.As a verb desolate
is to deprive of inhabitants.As a noun melancholic is
a person who is habitually melancholy.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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* * * ----melancholic
English
Alternative forms
* melancholick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky.
Noun
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