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Desolate vs. Dissolute — What's the Difference?

Desolate vs. Dissolute — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Desolate and Dissolute

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Desolate

(of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness
A desolate Pennine moor

Dissolute

Lacking moral restraint; indulging in sensual pleasures or vices.

Desolate

Feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness
I suddenly felt desolate and bereft

Dissolute

Unrestrained by morality.

Desolate

Make (a place) appear bleakly empty
The droughts that desolated the dry plains
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Dissolute

Recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures.

Desolate

Make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy
He was desolated by the deaths of his treasured friends

Dissolute

An immoral person devoted to sensual pleasures.

Desolate

Devoid of inhabitants; deserted
"streets which were usually so thronged now grown desolate" (Daniel Defoe).

Dissolute

With nerves unstrung; weak.

Desolate

Barren; lifeless
The rocky, desolate surface of the moon.

Dissolute

Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched.

Desolate

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

Dissolute

Unrestrained by convention or morality;
Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
Deplorably dissipated and degraded
Riotous living
Fast women

Desolate

To rid or deprive of inhabitants.

Desolate

To lay waste; devastate
"Here we have no wars to desolate our fields" (Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur).

Desolate

To forsake; abandon.

Desolate

To make lonely, forlorn, or wretched.

Desolate

Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
A desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house

Desolate

Barren and lifeless.

Desolate

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

Desolate

Dismal or dreary.

Desolate

Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.

Desolate

To deprive of inhabitants.

Desolate

To devastate or lay waste somewhere.

Desolate

To abandon or forsake something.

Desolate

To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

Desolate

Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, 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 throngThe desolate creeks and pools among.

Desolate

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

Desolate

Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
Have mercy upon, for I am desolate.
Voice of the poor and desolate.

Desolate

Lost to shame; dissolute.

Desolate

Destitute of; lacking in.
I were right now of tales desolate.

Desolate

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

Desolate

To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.
Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war.

Desolate

Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch;
The mother deserted her children

Desolate

Reduce in population;
The epidemic depopulated the countryside

Desolate

Devastate or ravage;
The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion

Desolate

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

Desolate

Pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment;
Desolate and despairing
Left forlorn

Desolate

Crushed by grief;
Depressed and desolate of soul
A low desolate wail

Desolate

Made uninhabitable;
Upon this blasted heath
A wasted landscape

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