Usually means: Extreme emptiness or devastating ruin.
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  1. desolation: Merriam-Webster
  2. desolation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. desolation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. desolation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. desolation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Desolation, desolation: Wordnik
  7. desolation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. desolation: Wiktionary
  9. desolation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. desolation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. desolation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Desolation, desolation: Dictionary.com
  13. desolation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Desolation (Llimona), Desolation (Motograter album), Desolation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Desolation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. desolation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. desolation: Rhymezone
  18. desolation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. desolation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. desolation: FreeDictionary.org
  21. desolation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. desolation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. desolation: Legal dictionary

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  1. desolation: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
▸ noun:  The state of being desolated or laid waste
▸ noun:  A place or country wasted and forsaken.

Similar:
devastation, forlornness, bleakness, ruin, loneliness, depopulation, desolater, vastation, wasting, despoilment, more...

Opposite:
bustling, lively, vibrant, thriving

Types:
wasteland, wilderness, barren, infertile, desert, more...

Phrases:
Abomination of desolation, Desolation Islands, Desolation Boulevard, A Desolation Called Peace, Desolation Row, more...

Adjectives:
utter, such, general, spiritual, complete, present, awful, moral, terrible, universal, vast

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    charcoal,     ash gray,     slate gray,     dusty brown,     olive drab, more...



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Similar:
devastation, forlornness, bleakness, ruin, loneliness, depopulation, desolater, vastation, wasting, despoilment, more...

Opposite:
bustling, lively, vibrant, thriving

Types:
wasteland, wilderness, barren, infertile, desert, more...

Phrases:
Abomination of desolation, Desolation Islands, Desolation Boulevard, A Desolation Called Peace, Desolation Row, Desolation Wilderness, Abominations of Desolation, Desolation Sound, Desert of Desolation, more...

Adjectives:
utter, such, general, spiritual, complete, present, awful, moral, terrible, universal, vast

Colors:
    charcoal,     ash gray,     slate gray,     dusty brown,     olive drab, more...



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