Synonyms and Antonyms of desolation
1
a state or spell of low spirits
- his desolation after his twin brother died was incurable
blue devils, blues, dejection, depression, despond, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, mopes, mournfulness, oppression, sadness, sorrowfulness, unhappiness
melancholia, self-pity
anguish, dolor, grief, mourning, somberness, sorrow, woefulness
agony, distress, pain
misery, woe, wretchedness
discouragement, disheartenment
moodiness
despair, desperation, hopelessness, self-despair
boredom, ennui, tedium
dismalness, drear, morbidness, moroseness, morosity
regret, rue
gaiety (also gayety), gayness, glee, gleefulness, humor, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, mirthfulness
cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, hopefulness, optimism, sunniness
content, contentedness, contentment, satisfaction
delight, gratification
bliss, blissfulness, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, gladness, gladsomeness, happiness, heaven, intoxication, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, rapture, rapturousness
2
land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops
- looked out over the vast untamed desolation to the north
3
the state of being unattended to or not cared for
- the desolation of the abandoned garden
4
the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless
- the nuclear attack resulted in a scene of utter desolation
annihilation, decimation, demolishment, demolition, destruction, devastation, extermination, extinction, havoc, loss, mincemeat, obliteration, ruin, ruination, wastage, wreckage
depredation, despoilment, despoliation
breakup, collapse, disintegration, dissolution
assassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughter
dismantlement, effacement, eradication
rescue, salvage, salvation, saving
conservation, preservation, protection
reclamation, reconstruction, re-creation, refurbishment, regeneracy, remodeling, renovation, restoration
