Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

desolate

/ˈdɛs.ə.lət/ adjective, verb

Forms desolates desolating desolated

  1. adjective Deserted and devoid of inhabitants. “a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house”
  2. adjective Barren and lifeless.
  3. adjective Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc. “desolate altars”
  4. adjective Dismal or dreary.
  5. adjective Sad, forlorn and hopeless. “He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.”
  6. verb To deprive of inhabitants.
  7. verb To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
  8. verb To abandon or forsake something.
  9. verb To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

Synonyms

peopleless uninhabited abandoned derelict desert deserted discarded dropped forlorn forsaken high and dry left behind orphaned beingless howling disinhabited inhabitantless inhabited lifeless solitary abandon forsake depopulate lay waste to waste devastate ravage scourge bare barren

Antonyms

inhabited populated fertile cheerful comforting

Etymology

From Middle English desolat(e). See Etymology 2 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.

From Middle English desolaten (“to desolate”), from desolat(e) (“desolate”), from Latin dēsōlātus, perfect passive participle of dēsōlō (“to leave alone, make lonely, lay waste, desolate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
  2. adjective Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.
  3. verb To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.
  4. verb To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.

Etymology [L. desolatus, p. p. of desolare to leave alone, forsake; de- + solare to make lonely, solus alone. See Sole, a.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “desolate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “desolate” (best matches first).

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