competent
Definition: (adjective) having the skill and knowledge needed for a particular task; capable
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desolate
adjective
- Empty of people: deserted, forlorn, godforsaken, lonely, lonesome, unfrequented. See
full
- Dark and depressing: black, bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, dismal, dreary, gloomy, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See
happy, light
- Having been given up and left alone: abandoned, bereft, derelict, deserted, forlorn, forsaken, lorn. See
keep
- Dejected due to the awareness of being alone: forlorn, lonely, lonesome, lorn. See
happy
- In low spirits: blue, dejected, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, dull, dysphoric, gloomy, heavy-hearted, low, melancholic, melancholy, sad, spiritless, tristful, unhappy, wistful.
Idiom:
down at (or in) the mouth. See
happy
verb
- To destroy completely as or as if by conquering: devastate, ravage, waste.
Idiom:
lay waste. See
help
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