Nouns (0)
Verbs (9)
depopulate
v. reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
waste, devastate, ravage, lay waste to
v. devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
lurch, abandon, desert, forsake
v. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (17)
barren, bare, bleak
adj. providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
forlorn, godforsaken, lorn, sad
adj. marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"
waste, desert, wild, god-forsaken
adj. located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"
wasted, blasted, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined
adj. "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
Fuzzynyms (107)
sack, plunder
v. plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome"
level, dismantle, take down, pull down, raze, rase, tear down
v. tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled"
demolish, destroy completely
v. destroy completely; "the wrecking ball demolished the building"; "demolish your enemies"; "pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand"
strip, foray, pillage, rifle, plunder, ransack, despoil, reave
v. steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
defect, desert
v. desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot"
empty, abandon, vacate
v. leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight"
drop
v. change from one level to another; "She dropped into army jargon"
leave, depart
v. remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"
throw, cast, drop, shed, cast off, throw away, shake off, throw off
v. get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
renounce, turn away from, quit, relinquish, foreswear
v. turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"
disinherit, disown
v. prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting
abjure, recant, forswear, retract
v. formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
apostatize, apostatise, tergiversate
v. abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
abandon, give up
v. give up with the intent of never claiming again; "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead"
shun, eschew
v. avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
predate, antedate, precede, forego, antecede
v. be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
swear off, promise to abstain from
v. promise to abstain from; "I have sworn off cigarettes altogether"
bony, wasted, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal
adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
absolute, rank, gross, perfect, utter, sheer, pure, stark, arrant, double-dyed, out-and-out, sodding, staring
adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
single, sole, separate, solitary, lonely, lonesome, only, alone, lone
adj. characterized by or preferring solitude; "a lone wolf"; "a lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; " a solitary walk"
disconsolate, inconsolable, unconsolable
adj. sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died"
dejected
adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"
depressed, despairing, despondent, heartsick
adj. without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"
melancholy, melancholic
adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
heartsick, brokenhearted, heartbroken
adj. full of sorrow
arid, waterless
adj. lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"
barren, childless
adj. without offspring; "in some societies a childless woman is rejected by her tribesmen"
Synonyms (44)
cool, unfriendly
adj. very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes"
hostile
adj. very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes"
windswept
adj. open to or swept by wind; "windswept headlands"
derelict, deserted, abandoned
adj. forsaken by owner or keeper ; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
cade
adj. (of a young animal) abandoned by its mother and raised by hand: "a cade calf"
castaway, rejected
adj. something or someone judged unacceptable; "rejected merchandise"
marooned
adj. cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
unsettled, unpeopled, unpopulated
adj. with no people living there; "vast unpopulated plains"
annihilated, exterminated, wiped out
adj. destroyed completely
blighted, spoilt
adj. affected by blight--anything that mars or events growth or prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urban districts"
obliterate, obliterated, blotted out
adj. reduced to nothingness
demolished, dismantled, razed
adj. torn down and broken up
raped, ravaged, despoiled, pillaged, sacked
adj. having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"
gone, kaput, lost, finished, done for
adj. destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese"
extinguished
adj. of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement
wiped out, ruined, impoverished
adj. destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"
totaled, wrecked, totalled
adj. used of automobiles; completely demolished; "the insurance adjuster declared the automobile totaled"
war-torn, war-worn
adj. laid waste by war
Antonyms (7)
stick, cling, adhere, cohere
v. come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"
populous, thickly settled
adj. densely populated
verdant
adj. characterized by abundance of verdure
desolate
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