All desolation synonyms

noun desolation

• misery — wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
• anguish — Anguish is great mental suffering or physical pain.
• solitude — the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.
• devastation — Devastation is severe and widespread destruction or damage.
• loneliness — affected with, characterized by, or causing a depressing feeling of being alone; lonesome.
• isolation — an act or instance of isolating.
• bleakness — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
• sorrow — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
• sadness — affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away.
• despair — Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
• gloom — total or partial darkness; dimness.
• melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
• dejection — Dejection is a feeling of sadness that you get, for example, when you have just been disappointed by something.
• woe — grievous distress, affliction, or trouble: His woe was almost beyond description.
• wretchedness — very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable.
• gloominess — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
• waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
• wreck — any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• desert — A desert is a large area of land, usually in a hot region, where there is almost no water, rain, trees, or plants.
• bareness — without covering or clothing; naked; nude: bare legs.
• solitariness — alone; without companions; unattended: a solitary passer-by.
• dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
• forlornness — desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
• wildness — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
• unhappiness — sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
• despondency — Despondency is a strong feeling of unhappiness caused by difficulties which you feel you cannot overcome.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• barrenness — not producing or incapable of producing offspring; sterile: a barren woman.
• self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
• dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.