- desolador
- adj.desolating, destructive, ravaging.m.desolator, bereaver, desolater.* * *desolador► adjetivo1 (devastador) devastating, ravaging2 (desconsolador) heartbreaking, devastating* * *ADJ1) (=entristecedor) [imagen] heartbreaking, heartrending; [noticia] devastating, distressing; [paisaje] bleak, cheerless2) [epidemia] devastating* * *-dora adjetivo1) (devastador) <tormenta/epidemia> devastating2) (triste, penoso) <noticia> devastating; <espectáculo> distressing
un panorama desolador — a bleak prospect
* * *= desolating, heartbreaking.Ex. This was especially desolating to Hernandez because Norbert Crane had been so exemplary in this regard.Ex. These are some of the most gripping, and most heartbreaking, pictures so far from Haiti in the aftermath of yesterday's devastating earthquake.* * *-dora adjetivo1) (devastador) <tormenta/epidemia> devastating2) (triste, penoso) <noticia> devastating; <espectáculo> distressingun panorama desolador — a bleak prospect
* * *= desolating, heartbreaking.Ex: This was especially desolating to Hernandez because Norbert Crane had been so exemplary in this regard.
Ex: These are some of the most gripping, and most heartbreaking, pictures so far from Haiti in the aftermath of yesterday's devastating earthquake.* * *desolador -doraadjectiveA (devastador) ‹tormenta/epidemia› devastatingB(triste, penoso): ante este panorama desolador faced with this bleak prospecttodos se conmovieron ante ese espectáculo desolador everybody was moved by that heartrending sightla noticia desoladora de la muerte de su padre the heartbreaking o desvastating news of his father's death* * *
desolador◊ -dora adjetivo
1 (devastador) ‹tormenta/epidemia› devastating
2 (triste, penoso) ‹noticia› devastating;
‹espectáculo› distressing
desolador,-ora adjetivo
1 (asolador, arrasador) devastating
2 (descorazonador) distressing
'desolador' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
desoladora
- panorama
* * *desolador, -ora adj1. [devastador] [terremoto, guerra] devastating2. [deprimente] [imagen, espectáculo] heart-rending;[noticia] devastating;ante un panorama tan desolador, nadie sabía cómo reaccionar faced with such a bleak prospect, nobody knew how to react* * *desoladoradj devastating* * *desolador, -dora adj1) : devastating2) : bleak, desolate
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.