Vocabulary
Desolate
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
(of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness.
Urdu meaning
چھوڑ جانا، ساتھ چھوڑنا،ویرانی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
Sentences are selected from stored editorial text where your search word appears. If none appear yet, run the admin sentence generator for fuller coverage.
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Balochistan has descended into a fog of grief the province`s desolate and vast terrain has been reduced to a living hell.
Dawn Editorials —
Depths of despair
— 2025-03-28
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A train full of passengers including civilians, soldiers and law-enforcement officials, along with their families, was ambushed in a desolate tract in Bolan.
Dawn Editorials —
Depths of despair
— 2025-03-28
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But the fact that BLA terrorists were able to waylay and hijack the train carrying hundreds of passengers, as well as security men, in a desolate region is terrifying.
Dawn Editorials —
Shocking ambush
— 2025-03-13
Synonyms
barren, bleak, stark, bare, dismal, grim, desert, waste, arid, sterile
Antonyms
fertile, populous
Curator example
“a desolate Pennine moor”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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