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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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desolate

/ˈdɛs(ə)lət/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈdɛs(ə)lət/
desolate
Syllables
3 syllables
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1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final e often stays silent

de - so - late -> desolate

Myanmar meaning

(adj) မပြုမပြင် ယိုယွင်းပျက်စီးနေသော။လူနေကင်းမဲ့သော။မိတ်ဆွေ အပေါင်းအသင်းကင်းမဲ့သော။အဖော်မဲ့သော။စိတ်ပျက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော။ (vt) မပြုမပြင်ပျက်စီးယိုယွင်းစေသည်။

Full entry

desolate /'desǝlǝt/ adj

၁။ (နေရာ၊ အရပ်ဒေသ) လူသူကင်းမဲ့ သော၊ တိတ်ဆိတ်ခြောက်ကပ်သော၊ ထိတ်လန့်အားငယ်စေသော။
a desolate industrial landscape ❍ a desolate, windswept moor.
၂။ ဖော်မဲ့သော။ ညှိုးငယ်သော။ အထီးကျန်သော။ a desolate person/existence ❍ We all felt absolutely desolate when she left.
/'desǝleÇt/ v (usu passive)
၁။ ပျက်စီးခြောက်ကပ်နေသည်။ ကျီးနှင့်ဖုတ်ဖုတ်ဖြစ်နေသည်။
a city completely desolated by civil strife.
၂။ ဝမ်းနည်းညှိုးငယ်နေသည်။ a family desolated by the loss of a child.
❏ desolation /desǝ'leÇʃn/ n [U]
၁။ (က) ဝမ်းနည်း ညှိုးငယ် စိတ်ဆင်းရဲဖွယ် နေရာ။ အနိဋ္ဌာရုံ မြင်ကွင်း။ a scene of utter desolation.
(ခ) ယင်းသို့ဖြစ်စေခြင်း။ the desolation of the environment.
၂။ ဖော်မဲ့သည့် ဒုက္ခ၊ စိတ်ဆင်းရဲမှု။ His wife's death left him with a sense of complete desolation.

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Synonyms
deserted, isolated, bleak, uninhabited, wild, barren, abandoned, acheronian, all by one's lonesome, austere, bare, batching it, bereft, black, blue, by itself/oneself, by oneself, cheerless, comfortless, companionless, dejected, depopulate, depredate, depressed, depressing, derelict, desecrate, desert, despoil, despondent, destroy, destroyed, devastate, devour, disconsolate, dismal, dolorous, down, downcast, dreary, empty, forbidding, forlorn, forsaken, funereal, gloomy, godforsaken, grim, hurting, in a blue funk, in solitary, inconsolable, joyless, lay low, lay waste, lonely, lonesome, lorn, me and my shadow, me myself and I, melancholy, miserable, mournful, on one's own, pillage, plunder, ravage, ruin, ruined, sack, sad, shag, solitarily, solitary, somber, spoliate, stag, tragic, traveling light, unaided, unassisted, unescorted, unfrequented, unhappy, unoccupied, unused, unwelcoming, vacant, waste, widowed, wretched
Antonyms
befriended, bright, build, cheerful, cherished, clean, construct, create, cultivated, full, happy, improve, inhabited, intact, joyous, loved, pleasant, pleased, populated, populous, protect, protected, restored, save, saved, used
Cross references
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