1(of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness:a desolate Pennine moor
2feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness:I suddenly felt desolate and bereft
1make (a place) appear bleakly empty:the droughts that desolated the dry plains
2make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy:he was desolated by the deaths of his treasured friends