荒 (huāng): 荒涼した

This barren land has not been farmed for years, and now it is overgrown with weeds.

After the war, the city was reduced to ruins, looking very desolate.

He walked alone in the desolate, uninhabited valley, feeling a bit scared.

Due to the drought, the farmland here was abandoned, and the farmers had to go out to work.