desolate
des-o-late
adjective
Feeling extremely sad, lonely, and without hope or comfort.
"She felt utterly desolate after the loss."
verb
To make a place empty, bare, and without people, causing great sadness.
"The plague desolated the village."
adjective
A place that is empty, bare, and without people, causing a feeling of loneliness.
"They explored the desolate moorland."
Thesaurus
Synonyms: waste, devastate, lay waste to, scourge, ravage, depopulate, desert, abandon, forsake, unconsolable, disconsolate, inconsolable