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Synonyms & Antonyms of desolation
- his desolation after his twin brother died was incurable
Synonyms for desolation
- 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
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- looked out over the vast untamed desolation to the north
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- the desolation of the abandoned garden
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- the nuclear attack resulted in a scene of utter desolation
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