desolated

Definitions

Deprived of people and deserted; barren or laid waste.

Feeling or showing a state of bleak, dismal emptiness or misery.

Examples

The once-thriving village now stood desolated and silent after the storm passed.

He felt completely desolated by the sudden loss of his lifelong companion.

Synonyms

devastated barren forsaken bleak desolate lonely ruined

Antonyms

populated thriving cheerful joyful inhabited prosperous flourishing