All 8 Uses of
desolate
in
East of Eden
- When a child first catches adults out--when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just--his world falls into panic desolation.
Chpt 3desolation = a feeling of extreme sadness or misery--often with loneliness
- He thought with desolation, I can't lick him any more.
Chpt 7
- Charles' face was desolate.
Chpt 7desolate = sad or miserable--and often lonely
- It was no easy thing for him to abandon Adam to his desolation.
Chpt 22 *desolation = a feeling of extreme sadness or misery--often with loneliness
- Her eyes were desolate.
Chpt 25desolate = sad or miserable--and often lonely
- she thought in desolation how brittle he was now and how easy to shatter, and how she would have to protect him.
Chpt 32desolation = a feeling of extreme sadness or misery--often with loneliness
- She was cold and desolate, alone and desolate.
Chpt 50desolate = sad or miserable--and often lonely
- She was cold and desolate, alone and desolate.
Chpt 50
Definitions:
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(1)
(desolate as in: felt desolate) sad or miserable--and often lonely
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(2)
(desolate as in: a desolate place) empty, providing no shelter or sustenance
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(3)
(desolate as in: desolated the region) destroyed; or emptied of people; or emptied of most plants and animals
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)