Desolation Synonyms and Antonyms

dĕsə-lāshən, dĕz-
The quality of being hopeless
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. forlornness
  2. wretchedness
  3. loneliness
  4. emptiness
  5. blankness
  6. misery
  7. hollowness
  8. bleakness
  9. vacuum
  10. void
  11. bareness
  12. inconsolability
  13. nakedness
Antonyms:
  1. happiness
  2. cheer
  3. joy
  4. comfort

Words Related to Desolation

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Desolation Sentence Examples

  • Desolation absorbed her into her thoughts, until Jade spoke again.

  • Desolation, unlike anything she'd ever felt, made her want to sink into the ground and stay there.

  • Words are powerless to describe the desolation of that prison-house, or the joy of the soul that is delivered out of its captivity.

  • If every man should fight for the best form of government the state would come to desolation.

  • Along the shores of the bay, and in the valleys of the mountains to the north and west it was inhabited; htit a great belt of desolation separated it from the regions in which the Moslem were fighting out their own quarrels.

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