Desolate
Crossword Clue and Answers
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This clue in was most recently seen in the wild in Evening Standard Easy Crossword.
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Publications
- Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Thursday, 24 Jun 2021
- Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Tuesday, 12 Jan 2021
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Friday, 4 Dec 2020
- Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Wednesday, 21 Oct 2020
- Irish Independent - Simple - Saturday, 17 Oct 2020
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Monday, 12 Oct 2020
Crossword Answers
4 letters
LORN
BARE
Lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
5 letters
BLEAK
Offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
WASTE
Useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"
STARK
Completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"
HARSH
Sharply disagreeable; rigorous; "the harsh facts of court delays"; "an abrasive character"
6 letters
DESERT
Arid land with little or no vegetation
RAVAGE
(usually plural) a destructive action; "the ravages of time"; "the depredations of age and disease"
LONELY
Marked by dejection from being alone; "felt sad and lonely"; "the loneliest night of the week"; "lonesome when her husband is away"; "spent a lonesome hour in the bar"
BARREN
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"
7 letters
FORLORN
Marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"
BEREAVE
Deprive through death
SCOURGE
A whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)
FORSAKE
Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
ABANDON
The trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry; "she danced with abandon"
8 letters
DESERTED
Forsaken by owner or inhabitants ; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
9 letters
ABANDONED
Free from constraint; "an abandoned sadness born of grief"- Liam O'Flaherty
DEVASTATE
Overwhelm or overpower; "He was devastated by his grief when his son died"
10 letters
LAYWASTETO
Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
DEPOPULATE
Reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
11 letters
UNINHABITED
Not having inhabitants; not lived in; "an uninhabited island"; "gaping doors of uninhabited houses"
GODFORSAKEN
Located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"
OUTOFTHEWAY
Murdered; "the mob boss wanted his rival out of the way"
COMFORTLESS
Without comfort; "a comfortless room"