Usually means: Causing extreme sadness or loneliness.
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  1. desolatingly: Merriam-Webster
  2. desolatingly: Collins English Dictionary
  3. desolatingly: Vocabulary.com
  4. desolatingly: Wiktionary

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▸ adverb:  So as to cause desolation.

Similar:
saddeningly, decryingly, crushingly, blightingly, heartachingly, annihilatingly, distressingly, despairfully, destroyingly, despairingly, more...

Opposite:
thriving, bustling, flourishing, vibrant

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Similar:
saddeningly, decryingly, crushingly, blightingly, heartachingly, annihilatingly, distressingly, despairfully, destroyingly, despairingly, more...

Opposite:
thriving, bustling, flourishing, vibrant



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