made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
(1) deserted or uninhabited, as in: They washed up on the shore of a desolate island
To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood
pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn" crushed by grief; "depressed and desolate of soul"; "a low desolate wail
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"
[ 'de-s&-l&t, 'de-z& ] (adjective.) 14th century. From Middle English Latin desolatus, past participle of desolare (“to leave alone, make lonely, lay waste, desolate”) solus (“alone”).