What (who) is desolation - definition
desolation
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Desolate; Desolation (disambiguation); Desolation (film)
1.
Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
Kozelek expresses his sense of desolation absolutely without self-pity.
= misery
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2.
If you refer to desolation in a place, you mean that it is empty and frightening, for example because it has been destroyed by a violent force or army.
We looked out upon a scene of desolation and ruin...
= devastation
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desolation
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Desolate; Desolation (disambiguation); Desolation (film)
n.
1.
Ruin, devastation, ravage, destruction.
2.
Desolateness, loneliness, solitude, solitariness, barrenness, wildness, bleakness, dreariness.
3.
Gloom, gloominess, sadness, unhappiness, wretchedness, misery.
desolation
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n. complete, utter desolation
Pronunciation examples for desolation
1. Above the desolation.
The Bucket List (2007)
2. guiding you through her desolation in love,
I Am China _ Xiaolu Guo _ Talks at Google
3. perhaps to offer him some protection against the desolation
36 Arguments for the Existence of God _ Rebecca Goldstein _ Talks at Google
4. The sense of my loneliness and desolation overwhelmed me."
Fay Bound-Alberti _ A Biography of Loneliness _ Talks at Google
5. on his face, a look of such desolation,
Cleanness _ Garth Greenwell _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of desolation
1. But beyond that, it will be desolation. letters@charleskrauthammer.com
2. What a picture of desolation lies behind these cold statistics.
3. And though the eyes were fakes, the desolation was real.
4. By Mijal Grinberg For most people the Negev is connected to their reserve duty and desolation.
5. Whatever Mr Mills has done, he has been left alone in desolation.