Vacant vs Desolate - What's the difference?
vacant | desolate |
Not occupied; empty.
Showing no intelligence or interest.
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 adjectives the difference between vacant and desolate
is that vacant is not occupied; empty while desolate is deserted and devoid of inhabitants.As a verb desolate is
to deprive of inhabitants.vacant
English
Adjective
(-)- vacant lot
- ''a vacant stare
Synonyms
* (Not occupied) available, empty, free, uninhabited, unoccupied * (Showing no intelligence or interest) vacuous, thousand mile stareDerived terms
* vacancy noun * vacantly adverbdesolate
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