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desolation

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of desolation

1 a state or spell of low spirits

  • his desolation after his twin brother died was incurable
Synonyms of 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
Words Related to desolation

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
Near Antonyms of desolation

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
Antonyms of desolation

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
Synonyms of desolation

barren, desert, heath, no-man's-land, waste, wasteland
Words Related to desolation

badland

brush, bush

dust bowl

open, open air, outdoors, out-of-doors

nature, wild, wilderness

3 the state of being unattended to or not cared for

  • the desolation of the abandoned garden
Synonyms of desolation

dilapidation, disrepair, neglect, seediness
Words Related to desolation

inattention, negligence

abandonment, desertion

decay, decrepitude, dereliction, deterioration, disintegration, dumpiness, ruin, ruination
Near Antonyms of desolation

conservation, preservation, upkeep
Antonyms of desolation

keeping, repair

4 the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless

  • the nuclear attack resulted in a scene of utter desolation
Synonyms of desolation

annihilation, decimation, demolishment, demolition, destruction, devastation, extermination, extinction, havoc, loss, mincemeat, obliteration, ruin, ruination, wastage, wreckage
Words Related to desolation

depredation, despoilment, despoliation

breakup, collapse, disintegration, dissolution

assassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughter

dismantlement, effacement, eradication
Near Antonyms of desolation

rescue, salvage, salvation, saving

conservation, preservation, protection

reclamation, reconstruction, re-creation, refurbishment, regeneracy, remodeling, renovation, restoration
Antonyms of desolation

building, construction, erection, raising

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