adverb
- in a way that causes a feeling of bleakness, loneliness, or abandonment; in a manner that is deeply depressing or disheartening
Usage: modifies adjectives, verbs, or entire clauses to intensify the sense of desolation or despair
Examples
- The abandoned house stood desolatingly empty on the hilltop.
- She spoke in a desolatingly quiet voice about her losses.
- The landscape stretched out desolatingly before them, barren and lifeless.
- He looked at her with desolatingly sad eyes.
- The news arrived desolatingly late, after all hope had faded.
- Winter had rendered the garden desolatingly gray and colorless.