Desolation
noun
A state of complete emptiness or destruction.
After the hurricane, there was desolation everywhere with destroyed homes and uprooted trees.
Often appears as...
- sense of desolation
- complete desolation
noun
Great unhappiness or loneliness.
After his wife's death, he lived in desolation.
Often appears as...
- feel desolation
- deep desolation
noun
A state of complete emptiness or destruction.
After the hurricane, there was desolation everywhere with destroyed homes and uprooted trees.
Often appears as...
- sense of desolation
- complete desolation
noun
Great unhappiness or loneliness.
After his wife's death, he lived in desolation.
Often appears as...
- feel desolation
- deep desolation
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Pro Tip 1/3Aftermath Imagery
Use 'desolation' to describe the aftermath of disasters, emphasizing visuals of emptiness.
The forest fire left nothing but a landscape of desolation.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Physical
'Desolation' may also refer to feeling emotionally empty or hollow.
She stared at the vacant lot, feeling an inner desolation.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
'Complete' or 'utter' often intensify 'desolation'. The word suggests an extreme state.
A once bustling mall now stood in utter desolation.
Pro Tip 1/3Aftermath Imagery
Use 'desolation' to describe the aftermath of disasters, emphasizing visuals of emptiness.
The forest fire left nothing but a landscape of desolation.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Physical
'Desolation' may also refer to feeling emotionally empty or hollow.
She stared at the vacant lot, feeling an inner desolation.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
'Complete' or 'utter' often intensify 'desolation'. The word suggests an extreme state.
A once bustling mall now stood in utter desolation.
Pro Tip 1/3Aftermath Imagery
Use 'desolation' to describe the aftermath of disasters, emphasizing visuals of emptiness.
The forest fire left nothing but a landscape of desolation.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Physical
'Desolation' may also refer to feeling emotionally empty or hollow.
She stared at the vacant lot, feeling an inner desolation.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
'Complete' or 'utter' often intensify 'desolation'. The word suggests an extreme state.
A once bustling mall now stood in utter desolation.
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Video examples
Buzz Aldrin: Mission to...
you know I'm gonna partially close the hatch being careful not to lock it on my way yeah not so funny they're hidden a handle on what was that like I mean when you think about it today you said magnificent desolation what do
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The gospel of doubt PIPE...
through the cow pastures of Montana, through the desolation of Detroit, through the swamps of New Orleans, where we found and worked with men and women who were building small businesses that made purpose their bottom line.
Video examples
Buzz Aldrin: Mission to...
you know I'm gonna partially close the hatch being careful not to lock it on my way yeah not so funny they're hidden a handle on what was that like I mean when you think about it today you said magnificent desolation what do
Video examples
The gospel of doubt PIPE...
through the cow pastures of Montana, through the desolation of Detroit, through the swamps of New Orleans, where we found and worked with men and women who were building small businesses that made purpose their bottom line.
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Quote examples
Phil Elverum
American Musician
After I made 'A Crow Looked at Me,' I remember people saying things to me like, 'You've made a beautiful tribute to Genevieve.' And I felt like, no! No no no, I haven't. I made a tribute to my own destruction and desolation. This is not a portrait of her. That's not who she was. She wasn't just a person who died.
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William Tecumseh Sherman
American Soldier
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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Sabine Baring-Gould
English Clergyman
In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.
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King George V
British Royalty
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
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Gordon Parks
American Photographer
And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.
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James Otis
American Lawyer
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
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Arthur Erickson
Canadian Architect
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
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James Larkin
Irish Activist
We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.
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Kristin Armstrong
American Athlete
Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.
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Mark Hoppus
American Musician
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
Quote examples
Phil Elverum
American Musician
After I made 'A Crow Looked at Me,' I remember people saying things to me like, 'You've made a beautiful tribute to Genevieve.' And I felt like, no! No no no, I haven't. I made a tribute to my own destruction and desolation. This is not a portrait of her. That's not who she was. She wasn't just a person who died.
Quote examples
William Tecumseh Sherman
American Soldier
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
Quote examples
Sabine Baring-Gould
English Clergyman
In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.
Quote examples
King George V
British Royalty
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
Quote examples
Gordon Parks
American Photographer
And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.
Quote examples
James Otis
American Lawyer
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
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Arthur Erickson
Canadian Architect
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
Quote examples
James Larkin
Irish Activist
We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.
Quote examples
Kristin Armstrong
American Athlete
Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.
Quote examples
Mark Hoppus
American Musician
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
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