Unproductive vs Desolate - What's the difference?
unproductive | desolate | Related terms |
Not productive; useless; fruitless.
:Juggling is an amusing pastime, but generally unproductive .
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.
Unproductive is a related term of desolate.
As adjectives the difference between unproductive and desolate
is that unproductive is not productive; useless; fruitless while desolate is deserted and devoid of inhabitants.As a verb desolate is
to deprive of inhabitants.unproductive
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*desolate
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(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