0 A desolate place is empty and not attractive, with no people or nothing pleasant in it: --
2 (of a place) having no living things; empty: --
a desolate landscape
He too wrote a desolate novel about a martyred woman.
The advocates of the project emphasized the desolate condition of the beach.
The herd was completely desolated.
The market mechanism alone cannot provide sufficient incentives, from just one of two good annual harvests, to attract population back to the rural areas and to deserted and desolated villages.
Two world wars desolated our forests.
There will be a scramble back to the desolated places, because people will want to get back to the districts they know and in which they lived for so long.
If you take a church and leave it isolated within an area which has already been desolated that church, inevitably, will die.
The characteristic of civil war is that every part of the community that engages in a civil war is desolated and impoverished in that war.
