desolate (v.)
- afflict
- aggrieve
- agonize
- alone
- anguish
- annihilate
- bare
- black
- condemn
- confound
- consume
- crush
- damn
- daunt
- decimate
- deject
- demolish
- depopulate
- depress
- desecrate
- desert
- despoil
- destroy
- devastate
- devour
- discourage
- dishearten
- dismay
- dispirit
- dissolve
- down
- dry
- embitter
- empty
- engorge
- excruciate
- gobble
- grieve
- gut
- incinerate
- inundate
- obliterate
- oppress
- overwhelm
- pillage
- prostrate
- ravage
- raze
- ruin
- sack
- sadden
- shipwreck
- sick
- sorrow
- torment
- torture
- upheave
- vandalize
- vaporize
- waste
- wrack
- wreck
desolate (adj.)
- abandoned
- acarpous
- acheronian
- alone
- arid
- bare
- barren
- black
- bleak
- celibate
- cheerless
- childless
- comfortless
- crushed
- damn
- dark
- defenseless
- dejected
- depressed
- deserted
- despondent
- destitute
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- discouraged
- dismal
- dispirited
- distressed
- down
- downcast
- downhearted
- drained
- drear
- dreary
- dried-up
- dry
- empty
- exhausted
- fallow
- fatherless
- forlorn
- forsaken
- friendless
- fruitless
- funereal
- gaunt
- gelded
- gloomy
- godforsaken
- heartsick
- helpless
- homeless
- hopeless
- impotent
- inconsolable
- ineffectual
- infertile
- isolated
- jejune
- joyless
- leached
- lonely
- low-spirited
- melancholy
- menopausal
- miserable
- motherless
- mournful
- murky
- neglected
- nonproductive
- obliterate
- outcast
- poor
- poverty-stricken
- prostrate
- ravaged
- remote
- ruined
- sad
- sick
- solitary
- somber
- sorrowful
- spiritless
- sterile
- stricken
- suicidal
- unconsolable
- uncouth
- uncultivated
- unfertile
- unfrequented
- unfruitful
- unhappy
- uninhabited
- unoccupied
- unplowed
- unproductive
- unsown
- untilled
- vacant
- virgin
- waste
- wasted
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
No one is so accursed by fate,
No one so utterly desolate,
But some heart, though unknown,
Responds unto his own.
None are so desolate but something dear,
Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd
A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.