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