Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: woes
- Amharic: desolate
- Arabic: مقفر
- Azerbaijani: опустошенные
- Bashkir: бөлгөнлөккә
- Belarusian: спустошаныя
- Bulgarian: опустошени
- Bengali: জনশূন্য
- Bosnian: pusta
- Catalan: desolat
- Cebuano: biniyaan
- Czech: pustý
- Welsh: ddiffeithwch
- Danish: øde
- German: öde
- Greek: έρημη
- Esperanto: dezerta
- Spanish: desolado
- Estonian: lohutu
- Basque: suntsituta
- Persian: متروک
- Finnish: autio
- French: désolée
- Irish: desolate
- Scottish Gaelic: as iomallaich
- Galician: desolada
- Gujarati: નિર્જન
- Hebrew: שומם
- Hindi: उजाड़
- Croatian: devastirana
- Haitian: savann
- Hungarian: sivár
- Armenian: опустошенные
- Indonesian: sepi
- Icelandic: auðn
- Italian: desolato
- Japanese: 荒涼とした
- Javanese: sepi
- Georgian: desolate
- Kazakh: опустошенные
- Khmer: ស្ងាត់ជ្រងំ
- Kannada: ನಿರ್ಜನ
- Korean: 황량한
- Kyrgyz: опустошенные
- Latin: deserta
- Luxembourgish: öde
- Lao: ຮ້າງເປົ່າ
- Lithuanian: dykuma
- Latvian: vientuļš
- Malagasy: lao
- Mari: пустаҥдаш
- Maori: ururua
- Macedonian: пусто
- Malayalam: ശൂന്യമായി
- Mongolian: эзгүй
- Marathi: ओसाड, उजाड
- Hill Mari: охыремдӹш
- Malay: sepi
- Maltese: - portal
- Burmese: ညံ
- Nepali: उजाड
- Dutch: woest
- Norwegian: øde
- Punjabi: ਵਿਰਾਨ
- Papiamento: desolá
- Polish: wyludnione
- Portuguese: desolado
- Romanian: pustiu
- Russian: опустошенные
- Sinhalese: පාළු
- Slovak: pusté
- Slovenian: pusta
- Albanian: shkretuar
- Serbian: опустошенные
- Sundanese: kapencil
- Swedish: öde
- Swahili: ukiwa
- Tamil: தனித்துவிடப்பட்ட
- Telugu: ఏకాంతమైన
- Tajik: опустошенные
- Thai: desolate
- Tagalog: sira
- Turkish: ıssız
- Tatar: опустошенные
- Udmurt: тырттэм
- Ukrainian: спустошені
- Urdu: ویران
- Uzbek: kimsasiz
- Vietnamese: hoang vắng
- Xhosa: yinkangala
- Yiddish: וויסט
- Chinese: 荒凉
Synonyms, close and similar words for desolate
- uninhabited
- unpopulated
- uninhabitable
- destroy
- ruin
- raze
- tear down
- inconsolable
- disconsolate
- ravage
- decimate
- devastate
- depopulate
- cheerless
- comfortless
- forlorn
- sad
- dreary
- dismal
- dark
- desert
- wilderness
- waste
- lonely
- lonesome
- solitary
- lifeless
- dead
- joyless
- bleak
- empty
- depressing
- sombre
- somber
- gloomy
- godforsaken
- miserable
- wretched
- barren
- arid
- void
- abandoned
- derelict
- poor
- impoverished
- fruitless
- infertile
- unfertile
- vacant
- deserted
- abandon
- disused