Desolation...What is it?

[KnobofBel]

What are the qualifiers for being desolate?

I did find one sign that marks the desolation: People lock the doors to their homes. The fact we even have locks on our homes, qualifies as being desolate.

Anyone find any other qualifiers for being desolate?

 

[Star Garden]

Hi there, Another new member here!

Desolation. Wow, that's a very strong word. I think of desolation as being completely devoid of life. Even the person who hides behind locked doors is still alive. And as long as there is life, there is hope.

Not sure if that's what you were looking for. That's my take on it.

 

[Nietzsche]

Desolation doesn't need a description, just this picture;

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

 

[jeager106]

What are the qualifiers for being desolate?

I did find one sign that marks the desolation: People lock the doors to their homes. The fact we even have locks on our homes, qualifies as being desolate.

Anyone find any other qualifiers for being desolate?

Perhaps you could narrow the parameters by explaining in what context you use the word.
The dictionary defintion;

des·o·late
/ˈdesəˌlāt/
adjective

1. (of a place) deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness.
   synonyms: bleak, stark, bare, dismal, grim, wild, inhospitable;

verb

1. make (a place) bleakly and depressingly empty or bare.