desolado
Portuguese
Etymology
Past participle of desolar.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.zoˈla.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /de.zoˈla.do/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /dɨ.zuˈla.du/ [dɨ.zuˈla.ðu]
- Hyphenation: de‧so‧la‧do
Participle
desolado (feminine desolada, masculine plural desolados, feminine plural desoladas)
- past participle of desolar
Adjective
desolado (feminine desolada, masculine plural desolados, feminine plural desoladas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “desolado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “desolado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /desoˈlado/ [d̪e.soˈla.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: de‧so‧la‧do
Adjective
desolado (feminine desolada, masculine plural desolados, feminine plural desoladas)
- desolate, brokenhearted, bleak (sad, hopeless)
- desolate (deserted, unfit for habitation)
Participle
desolado (feminine desolada, masculine plural desolados, feminine plural desoladas)
- past participle of desolar
Further reading
- “desolado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025