Synonyms and Antonyms of desolation
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a state or spell of low spirits - A visit from an old friend eased his desolation.
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
dismalness, morbidness, moroseness
gaiety (also gayety), gayness, glee, gleefulness, humor, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, mirthfulness
cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, hopefulness, optimism, sunniness
contentedness, contentment, satisfaction
delight, gratification
bliss, blissfulness, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, gladness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, rapture, rapturousness
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land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops - looked out over the vast untamed desolation to the north
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the state of being unattended to or not cared for - the desolation of the abandoned garden
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the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless - The photos captured a scene of utter desolation.
annihilation, decimation, demolishment, demolition, destruction, devastation, extermination, extinction, havoc, loss, 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
