different between desolate vs austere
desolate
English
Etymology
From Middle English desolate, from Latin d?s?l?tus, past participle of d?s?l?re (“to leave alone, make lonely, lay waste, desolate”), from s?lus (“alone”).
Pronunciation
- (adjective) IPA(key): /?d?s?l?t/
- (verb) IPA(key): /?d?s?le?t/
Adjective
desolate (comparative more desolate, superlative most desolate)
- Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
- a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house
- Barren and lifeless.
- Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc.
- desolate altars
- Dismal or dreary.
- Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
- He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
- voice of the poor and desolate
Translations
Verb
desolate (third-person singular simple present desolates, present participle desolating, simple past and past participle desolated)
- To deprive of inhabitants.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Vicissitude of Things” in Essays, London: H. Herringman et al., 1691, p. 204,[1]
- If you consider well of the People of the West-Indies, it is very probable, that they are a newer or younger People, than the People of the old World. And it is much more likely, that the destruction that hath heretofore been there, was not by Earthquakes, […] but rather, it was Desolated by a particular Deluge: For Earthquakes are seldom in those Parts.
- 1717, John Dryden (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Dublin: G. Risk et al., 1727, Volume I, Book I, p. 16,[2]
- O Righteous Themis, if the Pow’rs above
- By Pray’rs are bent to pity, and to love;
- If humane Miseries can move their Mind;
- If yet they can forgive, and yet be kind;
- Tell how we may restore, by second birth,
- Mankind, and people desolated Earth.
- 1891, Charles Creighton, A History of Epidemics in Britain, Cambridge University Press, Chapter 1, p. 23,[3]
- York was so desolated just before the survey that it is not easy to estimate its ordinary population […]
- 1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Vicissitude of Things” in Essays, London: H. Herringman et al., 1691, p. 204,[1]
- To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 2nd edition, 1809, Volume I, Book 3, p. 118,[4]
- Then Moath pointed where a cloud
- Of Locusts, from the desolated fields
- Of Syria, wing’d their way.
- 1905, H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia, Chapter 2, § 3,[5]
- But in Utopia there will be wide stretches of cheerless or unhealthy or toilsome or dangerous land with never a household; there will be regions of mining and smelting, black with the smoke of furnaces and gashed and desolated by mines, with a sort of weird inhospitable grandeur of industrial desolation, and the men will come thither and work for a spell and return to civilisation again, washing and changing their attire in the swift gliding train.
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 2nd edition, 1809, Volume I, Book 3, p. 118,[4]
- To abandon or forsake something.
- To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
- 1914, Arnold Bennett, The Author’s Craft, London: Hodder & Stoughton, Part II, p. 44,[6]
- It is not altogether uncommon to hear a reader whose heart has been desolated by the poignancy of a narrative complain that the writer is unemotional.
- 1948, Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, Chapter 36, p. 271,[7]
- Kumalo stood shocked at the frightening and desolating words.
- 1914, Arnold Bennett, The Author’s Craft, London: Hodder & Stoughton, Part II, p. 44,[6]
Related terms
- desolation
Translations
Further reading
- desolate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- desolate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- desolate at OneLook Dictionary Search
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?t?
Adjective
desolate
- inflection of desolat:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
desolate f pl
- feminine plural of desolato
Latin
Participle
d?s?l?te
- vocative masculine singular of d?s?l?tus
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austere
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (aust?rós, “bitter, harsh”), having the specific meaning "making the tongue dry" (originally used of fruits, wines), related to ??? (aú?, “to singe”), ???? (aûos, “dry”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation): IPA(key): /??st??(?)/, /???st??(?)/
- (US)
- (General American) IPA(key): /??sti?/, enPR: ôst?r?
- (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American): IPA(key): /??sti?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Adjective
austere (comparative austerer or more austere, superlative austerest or most austere)
- Grim or severe in manner or appearance
- Lacking decoration; trivial; not extravagant or gaudy
Synonyms
- (grim or severe): stern, strict, forbidding
- (lacking trivial decoration): simple, plain, unadorned, unembellished
Antonyms
- (not lacking trivial decoration): overwrought, flamboyant, extravagant, gaudy, flashy
Derived terms
- austerity
- austerely
Translations
Italian
Adjective
austere f pl
- feminine plural of austero
Latin
Adjective
aust?re
- vocative masculine singular of aust?rus
References
- austere in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- austere in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Latvian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Perhaps related to Ancient Greek ??????? (óstreon).
Pronunciation
Noun
austere f (5th declension)
- oyster (certain edible bivalve mollusks of the order Ostreida)
Declension
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aust?rus.
Adjective
austere m or f (plural austeres)
- austere; severe
Old French
Alternative forms
- haustere
- auster (masculine only)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aust?rus.
Adjective
austere m (oblique and nominative feminine singular austere)
- (of a flavor) acrid; bitter
- austere; severe
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