1
as in melancholy
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2
as in bleakness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for desolateness
Noun
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Chu's main input was slowing down the song's pacing overall, leaning into the melancholy of the moment.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
22 Mar. 2025 -
Gyuri Kim, with her feeling for melancholy and uncertainty, turned out to be a wonderful counterpart.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The dejection stemming from Wagner’s knee injury gave way (for a moment, anyway) to pure elation.—
Josh Robbins,
The Athletic,
22 Dec. 2024
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The waves of emotions — from dejection to hope to numbness to jubilation (for him) and relief (for me) — are something neither of us will forget.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
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Worse still, perhaps, at times general-purpose generative AI will produce a heaping of psychobabble, seemingly impressive sounding mental health advice that is nothing more than babbling psychological words of nothingness, see my analysis at the link here.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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The Padres’ winter of nonsense and nothingness is no more.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Between 1975 to 1992, nearly 2,000,000 Vietnamese risked their lives fleeing oppression after the Vietnam War.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Instead, his hallucinatory drama explores themes like Black assimilation, imperial white oppression, eroticism, and the uneasy relationship between religion and power.—
Jordan Crucchiola,
Vulture,
26 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Magnificent heroes of delicacy and seduction, Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant forever illuminate the film of our lives, like these two posters, whose colors express the intensity of a passionate love that triumphs over despair.—
Patrick Hipes,
Deadline,
21 Apr. 2025
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The most heartbreaking thing about this highly heartbreaking scene, to me, is how Ramsey communicates Ellie’s despair at realizing there’s no time to fix things between them.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
20 Apr. 2025
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Kennedy described addiction as both a source of misery and a symptom of deeper pain, drawing from his own experience of trying to fill an emotional void with drugs.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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Now, though, The Last of Us is as blinded as Ellie is by misery.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Inter’s 1-0 loss to Roma wasn’t all doom and gloom.—
Sam Tighe,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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And yet the announcement wasn’t all doom and gloom.—
Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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This week, Morgan Wallen and Post Malone pair up again for a new collaboration, while Sam Barber offers up a song of blistering song of desolation.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
21 Apr. 2025
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From this desolation arose the Messianic faith of Christianity, which, after the conversion of the Emperor Constantine in 312, eventually became the Roman Empire’s sole state religion.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Desolateness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desolateness. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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