Separated vs Desolate - What's the difference?
separated | desolate | Related terms |
detached; not connected or joined; two or more things stand apart.
(of spouses) estranged; living apart but not divorced.
(separate)
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.
Separated is a related term of desolate.
As adjectives the difference between separated and desolate
is that separated is detached; not connected or joined; two or more things stand apart while desolate is deserted and devoid of inhabitants.As verbs the difference between separated and desolate
is that separated is (separate) while desolate is to deprive of inhabitants.separated
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Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
When used in cooking to describe eggs in which the yolk and white have been disjoined from each other, it is more commonly used in the appositive form (two eggs, separated'') than in the usual position for an English adjective (''two separated eggs ).Antonyms
* combined * unified * unitedVerb
(head)Anagrams
* * *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