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deserted

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɪˈzɜː(ɹ)tɪd//
  • United States//dəˈzɜɹtəd//
  • United States/[dəˈzɝɾəd]/

Abandoned, without people.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of desertsimple past and past participle of desert

adjective

  1. 1

    Abandoned, without people.

    Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.

    On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game.

  2. 2

    desolate

Forms

comparative
more deserted
superlative
most deserted
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).