trostlos — meaning in English

English meaning

• bleak adj Cold, gray, and exposed, with nothing to soften the harshness of the scene.
• desolate adj Empty and bleak, with no people or life around; also, extremely sad and without hope.
• disconsolate adj Sad and gloomy.
• dreary adj Dull, gloomy, and depressing.
• gaunt adj Unhealthily thin, especially with a hollow, drawn look from hunger, illness, or exhaustion.

Senses

trostlos is used for these senses in English:

• bleak Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
• bleak Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
• desolate Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
• disconsolate Cheerless, dreary.
• dreary Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
• gaunt Of a place or thing: bleak, desolate.

bleak — full definition

1. adj Cold, gray, and exposed, with nothing to soften the harshness of the scene.
2. adj Offering little hope; grim.

desolate — full definition

1. adj Empty and bleak, with no people or life around; also, extremely sad and without hope.
2. verb To make a place empty of people or life; to devastate.

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