| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | To destroy completely as or as if by conquering: devastate, ravage, waste. Idioms: lay waste. See HELP. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having been given up and left alone: abandoned, bereft, derelict, deserted, forlorn, forsaken, lorn. See KEEP. 2. In low spirits: blue, dejected, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, dull, dysphoric, gloomy, heavy-hearted, low, melancholic, melancholy, sad, spiritless, tristful, unhappy, wistful. Idioms: down at (or in) the mouth. See HAPPY. 3. Dark and depressing: black, bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, dismal, dreary, gloomy, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See HAPPY, LIGHT. 4. Dejected due to the awareness of being alone: forlorn, lonely, lonesome, lorn. See HAPPY. 5. Empty of people: deserted, forlorn, godforsaken, lonely, lonesome, unfrequented. See FULL.
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