Desolate vs. Haggard — What's the Difference?

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

Exhausted or distraught and often gaunt in appearance.

Feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness

Wild and intractable. Used of a hawk in falconry.

Make (a place) appear bleakly empty

An adult hawk captured for training.

Make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy

Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition

Devoid of inhabitants; deserted

(of an animal) Wild or untamed

Barren; lifeless

(falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.

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

(falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

To rid or deprive of inhabitants.

(obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.

To lay waste; devastate

(obsolete) A hag.

To forsake; abandon.

A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.

To make lonely, forlorn, or wretched.

Wild or intractable; disposed to break away from duty; untamed; as, a haggard or refractory hawk.

Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.

Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted by pain; wild and wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes.

Barren and lifeless.

A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

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

A fierce, intractable creature.

Dismal or dreary.

A hag.

Sad, forlorn and hopeless.

A stackyard.

To deprive of inhabitants.

British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)

To devastate or lay waste somewhere.

Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering;

To abandon or forsake something.

Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;

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;