Definition for Desolation:

• an event that results in total destruction

Synonyms for Desolation:

• n.

  •
  • barrenness,
  • bare,
  • clear,
  • demolition,
  • hollow,
  • fertility,
  • extinction,
  • waste,
  • empty,
  • ruin,
  • abandoned,
  • uncrowded,
  • derelict,
  • havoc,
  • desert,
  • wreck,
  • blank,
  • deserted.
  •
  • void,
  • vacuum,
  • full.
  •abandonment (noun)
  • dereliction.
  •bleakness (noun)
  • bleakness.
  •catastrophe (noun)
  • de-solation,
  • de solations,
  • mis-chances,
  • up-shot,
  • mis-fortunes,
  • the worsts,
  • mis fortune,
  • de-solations,
  • up shots,
  • mis chances,
  • mis-chance,
  • re-verse,
  • re verse,
  • mis chance,
  • up shot,
  • mis adventure,
  • mis-adventures,
  • up-shots,
  • mis adventures,
  • mis fortunes,
  • mis-adventure,
  • de solation.
  •consumption (noun)
  • de cay,
  • de crease,
  • de-cay,
  • de-crease,
  • wear tear,
  • drinkings,
  • using ups,
  • consumings,
  • de creases,
  • de cays,
  • de-creases,
  • de-cays.
  •depredation (noun)
  • sackings,
  • spoliations,
  • spoliation,
  • laying waste.
  •depression (noun)
  • cheerlessness,
  • melancholia,
  • gloominess,
  • dreariness,
  • lugubriosity,
  • the blues,
  • Abjectness,
  • the blue,
  • blahs,
  • dispiritedness,
  • lowness,
  • Disconsolation,
  • Melancholias,
  • abjection,
  • heaviness of heart,
  • woefulness.
  •desolation (noun)
  • devastation.
  •desperation (noun)
  • dis comforts,
  • dis-tractions,
  • dis-traction,
  • dis comfort,
  • dis-comforts,
  • dis-comfort,
  • disconsolatenesses,
  • dis tractions,
  • dis traction.
  •destruction (noun)
  • destruction,
  • extirpation,
  • eradication,
  • annihilation,
  • disintegration,
  • wreckage,
  • abolishment,
  • vaporization,
  • holocaust,
  • decimation,
  • extermination.
  •devastation (noun)
  • de foliation,
  • de foliations,
  • de-foliation,
  • defoliations,
  • de-foliations.
  •disaster area (noun)
  • crisis zones,
  • flood zones,
  • area devastation,
  • scene destruction,
  • disaster relief areas,
  • path destruction,
  • storm centers,
  • disaster-area,
  • emergency areas,
  • earthquake zones.
  •dissatisfaction (noun)
  • dis inclinations,
  • dis quiets,
  • malcontentments,
  • dis-taste,
  • dis approvals,
  • dis-quiets,
  • un easiness,
  • dis-likings,
  • dis-approval,
  • dis-favor,
  • dis satisfaction,
  • dis-may,
  • dis-approvals,
  • dis-relish,
  • dis quiet,
  • dis-favors,
  • dis-quiet,
  • dis relishes,
  • dis pleasures,
  • in dispositions,
  • dis favors,
  • dis-liking,
  • dis pleasure,
  • un-easiness,
  • dis-mays,
  • dis-satisfactions,
  • dis approval,
  • dis-tastes,
  • dis mays,
  • in-dispositions,
  • dis-relishes,
  • dis may,
  • dis inclination,
  • dis-pleasures,
  • dis taste,
  • in disposition,
  • dis satisfactions,
  • dis favor,
  • dis-inclination,
  • dislikings,
  • querulousnesses,
  • un-easinesses,
  • dis liking,
  • dis-satisfaction,
  • fretfulnesses,
  • dis likings,
  • dis tastes,
  • in-disposition,
  • dis-inclinations,
  • dis relish,
  • dis-pleasure.
  •distress (noun)
  • dis appointment,
  • head-ache,
  • dis-appointment,
  • dis quietudes,
  • dis-appointments,
  • dis-tress,
  • dis tress,
  • unconsolabilities,
  • dis tresses,
  • worriments,
  • dis-quietude,
  • dis-tresses,
  • dis quietude,
  • dis-quietudes,
  • dis appointments.
  •distress, unhappiness (noun)
  • anguish,
  • dejection,
  • despair,
  • sadness,
  • mourning.
  •downheartedness (noun)
  • low spiritedness,
  • low spiritednesses,
  • lowspiritedness,
  • low-spiritednesses,
  • lowspiritednesses.
  •emptiness (noun)
  • inanitions,
  • desertednesses,
  • depletednesses.
  •gloom (noun)
  • fore boding,
  • mis giving,
  • Catatonias,
  • pensivenesses,
  • fore bodings,
  • mis-giving,
  • saturninities,
  • fore-boding,
  • low spirit,
  • fore-bodings.
  •glumness (noun)
  • downheartedns.
  •grief (noun)
  • be-moaning,
  • be-wailing,
  • re-pining,
  • bewailings,
  • in felicity,
  • re morses,
  • in felicities,
  • re-morse,
  • re-morses,
  • re morse,
  • be wailing,
  • bemoanings,
  • re pining,
  • repinings,
  • deplorings,
  • lamentings,
  • be moaning,
  • in-felicity,
  • in-felicities.
  •havoc (noun)
  • shambles.
  •heartbreak (noun)
  • heavy heart,
  • broken heart,
  • heartsickness.
  •heavy-heartedness (noun)
  • heavy heartedness.
  •hollowness (noun)
  • vaccums.
  •hopelessness (noun)
  • desperation.
  •pathos (noun)
  • pitifulness,
  • pitiableness,
  • poignance,
  • plaintiveness.
  •seclusion (noun)
  • sequestration,
  • retirement,
  • isolation.
  •state (noun)
  • desolation.
  •uninhabitated area; barrenness (noun)
  • bareness,
  • dissolution,
  • solitariness,
  • wildness,
  • solitude.
  •waste (noun)
  • lost opportunity,
  • wastages,
  • Unthriftiness,
  • wastage.
  •wretchedness (noun)
  • dis-content,
  • dis-contents,
  • dis contents,
  • dis content.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • disappointment,
  • heartache,
  • disenchantment,
  • discouragement,
  • wrench,
  • slough,
  • regret,
  • sorrow,
  • death wish,
  • discontent,
  • disillusionment,
  • remorse,
  • self-pity,
  • darkness,
  • woe,
  • melancholy.
  •
  • agony,
  • hurt,
  • pain,
  • upset,
  • rejection.
  •
  • ache.
  •
  • smart.

Paraphrases for Desolation:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    devastation, havoc.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    destruction.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    grief.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    despair, desperation, misery, disarray, waste, distress.

Antonyms for Desolation:

• n.

  • distress, unhappiness
    joyfulness, gladness.
  • uninhabitated area; barrenness
    cheer, development, happiness, comfort, creation, joy, civilization.
  • Other antonyms:
    exuberance, salvation, building, upkeep, re-creation, raising, refurbishment, joyousness, restoration, protection, gladsomeness, keeping, lightheartedness, reclamation, remodeling, saving, renovation, Regeneracy, construction, optimism, humor, rapturousness, hopefulness, repair, jollity, intoxication, content, rescue, exultation, preservation, conservation, salvage, jubilation, sunniness, reconstruction.

Desolation Sentence Examples:

• However that might be, she thought, his presence was now, as all through this ordeal, the thing which stood between her and utter desolation.

• Foster's way led through this desolation, but his map indicated a road of a kind that ran north to the head of Liddel.

Homophones for Desolation:

• dissolution, diocletian, deglutition, de-escalation.

Hypernym for Desolation:

• n.

  • state
    ruination, ruin, blight.

Hyponym for Desolation:

• n.

  • state
    impairment, deterioration.