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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