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Definition of Desolation
1. Noun. The state of being decayed or destroyed.
Generic synonyms: Deterioration, Impairment
Specialized synonyms: Ruin, Ruination, Blight
Derivative terms: Desolate, Devastate
2. Noun. A bleak and desolate atmosphere. "The nakedness of the landscape"
Generic synonyms: Gloom, Gloominess, Glumness
Derivative terms: Bleak, Bleak, Bleak, Desolate
3. Noun. Sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned.
Generic synonyms: Sadness, Unhappiness
Derivative terms: Desolate, Lonely
4. Noun. An event that results in total destruction.
Generic synonyms: Ruin, Ruination
Derivative terms: Desolate, Desolate, Devastate
Definition of Desolation
1. n. The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
Definition of Desolation
1. Noun. The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation. ¹
2. Noun. The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess. ¹
3. Noun. A place or country wasted and forsaken. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Desolation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desolation
Literary usage of Desolation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by Sir William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"But the i of it : their voice shall sing in the windows : desolation shall be in
the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work .... how is she become ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"SPIRITUAL STATES OF CONSOLATION AND Desolation.—Consolation and desolation may
be said to be phases of the various states or stages of the spiritual life, ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1854)
"[Gibbon himself felt how fallacious and untrustworthy the authorities were, from
which he drew his picture of the desolation of Africa. ..."
4. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1900)
"... of the awfulness of the rushing waters at the Strid, and of the weird silences
in the Valley of Desolation, of the views of mountain, moor, ..."
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