Desolate vs. Destitute — What's the Difference?

(of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness

Extremely poor and lacking the means to provide for oneself

Feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness

Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished.

Make (a place) appear bleakly empty

Utterly lacking; devoid

Make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy

(followed by the preposition "of") Lacking something; devoid

Devoid of inhabitants; deserted

Lacking money; poor, impoverished

Barren; lifeless

(transitive) To impoverish; to strip of wealth, resources, etc.

Feeling, showing, causing, or expressing sadness or loneliness.

Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; - often followed by of.

To rid or deprive of inhabitants.

Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor.

To lay waste; devastate

To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon.

To forsake; abandon.

To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; - followed by of.

To make lonely, forlorn, or wretched.

To disappoint.

Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.

Poor enough to need help from others

Barren and lifeless.

Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc.

Dismal or dreary.

Sad, forlorn and hopeless.

To deprive of inhabitants.

To devastate or lay waste somewhere.

To abandon or forsake something.

To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.

Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.

Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.

Lost to shame; dissolute.

Destitute of; lacking in.

To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.

To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.

Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch;

Reduce in population;

Devastate or ravage;

Providing no shelter or sustenance;

Pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment;

Crushed by grief;

Made uninhabitable;