Synonyms for desolation
noun
The quality of being uninhabited
bareness, barrenness, bleakness, devastation, destruction, havoc, ruin, wreck, ravaging, demolition, annihilation, extinction, depopulation, emptiness; see also desert, waste 3.
Antonyms fertility*, luxuriance, productivity.
The quality of being hopeless
wretchedness, misery, loneliness, forlornness; see gloom 2.
See desolation in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
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