Dilapidated vs Desolated - What's the difference?
dilapidated | desolated |
Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect
(desolate)
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.
As verbs the difference between dilapidated and desolated
is that dilapidated is while desolated is (desolate).As an adjective dilapidated
is having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect.dilapidated
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(en adjective)Synonyms
* beat * beat up * beaten up * bedraggled * broken-down * ramshackle * ruinous * rundown * tatterdemalion * tumbledowndesolated
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(head)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