German-English translations for öde

• desolate
  a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house
  desolate altars
  He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
• abandoned
• barren
  I silently wept as my daughters husband rejected her. What would she do now that she was no longer a maiden but also barren?
  The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit.
• bleak
  A bleak and bare rock.
  They escaped across the bleak landscape.
  A bleak, crater-pocked moonscape.
• deserted
  Madam President, the Tillich report is bone dry, I agree, but frankly its importance is such that there is no excuse for this debating chamber to be virtually deserted. Frau Präsidentin! Der Tillich-Bericht ist spröde und trocken, wenn Sie so wollen, aber von seiner Bedeutung her hat er es offen gesagt nicht verdient, daß der Saal beinahe leer ist.
• dreary
  It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeoples spirits down.
  Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...
• dull
  All these knives are dull
  He sat through the dull lecture and barely stayed awake
  When does having a dull personality ever get you a girlfriend? Even if you get one, how does being dull help you keep a relationship for over a year?
• empty
  an empty purse; an empty jug; an empty stomach
  empty words, or threats
  empty offer
• gaunt
• grey
  the grey dollar, i.e. the purchasing power of the elderly
  My hair is beginning to grey
  the greying of Europe
• lame
  a lame leg, arm or muscle
• lonely
• ode
• stark
  I picked my way forlornly through the stark, sharp rocks.
  I screamed in stark terror.
  A flower was growing, in stark contrast, out of the sidewalk.
• tedious
• uninhabited
• waste
  That is precisely what has been going on in Congo for decades, with people dying in their millions, vast stretches of land lying waste, and the economy crippled. Genau diese Situation herrscht seit Jahrzehnten im Kongo, Millionen von Menschen sterben, ganze Landstriche veröden, die Wirtschaft liegt seit Jahrzehnten danieder.
  The cage was littered with animal waste
  That was a waste of time

Related words

• Ode
• Erdboden
• oder
• Periode
• Modem
• ödem
• modern
• Hodenkrebs