'Desolation' definitions:
Definition of 'desolation'
From: WordNet
noun
The state of being decayed or destroyed [syn: devastation, desolation]
noun
A bleak and desolate atmosphere; "the nakedness of the landscape" [syn: bleakness, desolation, bareness, nakedness]
noun
Sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned [syn: forlornness, loneliness, desolation]
noun
An event that results in total destruction [syn: devastation, desolation]
Definition of 'Desolation'
From: GCIDE
- Desolation \Des`o*la"tion\, n. [F. d['e]solation, L. desolatio.]
- 1. The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation. [1913 Webster]
- Unto the end of the war desolations are determined. --Dan. ix. 26. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess. [1913 Webster]
- You would have sold your king to slaughter, . . . And his whole kingdom into desolation. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A place or country wasted and forsaken. [1913 Webster]
- How is Babylon become a desolation! --Jer. l. 23.
- Syn: Waste; ruin; destruction; havoc; devastation; ravage; sadness; destitution; melancholy; gloom; gloominess. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'desolation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandonment,
- aching heart,
- agonizingness,
- agony,
- agony of mind,
- anguish,
- Arabia Deserta,
- bale,
- barren,
- barren land,
- barrenness,
- barrens,
- bitterness,
- bleeding heart,
- bloodbath,
- blue ruin,
- breakup,
- broken heart,
- brush,
- bush,
- carnage,
- chaos,
- comfortlessness,
- consumption,
- crushing,
- damnation,
- Death Valley,
- decimation,
- defenselessness,
- depopulation,
- depredation,
- depression,
- depth of misery,
- desert,
- desertion,
- desolateness,
- despair,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- devastation,
- disconsolateness,
- disconsolation,
- disintegration,
- disorganization,
- dispeoplement,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- distress,
- dolor,
- dreariness,
- dust bowl,
- excruciatingness,
- excruciation,
- extirpation,
- extremity,
- fatherlessness,
- forlornness,
- gloom,
- grief,
- havoc,
- heartache,
- heartbreak,
- heartsickness,
- heath,
- heavy heart,
- hecatomb,
- helplessness,
- holocaust,
- homelessness,
- howling wilderness,
- inconsolability,
- infelicity,
- karroo,
- kithlessness,
- lunar landscape,
- lunar waste,
- melancholia,
- melancholy,
- misery,
- motherlessness,
- obliteration,
- prostration,
- ravage,
- ravagement,
- ruin,
- ruination,
- sack,
- sadness,
- Sahara,
- salt flat,
- shambles,
- slaughter,
- sorrow,
- spoliation,
- suicidal despair,
- torment,
- tormentingness,
- torture,
- torturousness,
- undoing,
- unhappiness,
- vandalism,
- waste,
- wasteland,
- weary waste,
- wild,
- wilderness,
- wilds,
- woe,
- wrack,
- wrack and ruin,
- wreck,
- wretchedness