Definitions for desolation

desolation des·o·la·tion

Spelling: [des-uh-ley-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌdɛs əˈleɪ ʃən/

Desolation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 1094 anagrams from letters in desolation (adeilnoost).

Definitions for desolation

noun

  1. an act or instance of desolating.
  2. the state of being desolated.
  3. devastation; ruin.
  4. depopulation.
  5. dreariness; barrenness.
  6. deprivation of companionship; loneliness.
  7. sorrow; grief; woe.
  8. a desolate place.

Origin of desolation

1350-1400; Middle English Late Latin dēsōlātiōn- (stem of dēsōlātiō) abandonment, equivalent to dēsōlāt(us) (see desolate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for desolation

Some people assume that if you can't speak or hear, you live in a cage of silence and desolation.

Far and wide lay a ruined country, yielding nothing but desolation.

She returned at last to her little home, to find it a scene of desolation.

I tried to shake off the feeling of desolation as I went to my bed of boughs.

She vividly describes the desolation and frustration of incarceration and puts Knox in every scene.

Yet there was a grandeur in my desolation that would have elevated my heart but for the fear.

For him this was desolation, such a catastrophe that he forgot his torments.

It is the desolation of exiled Tibetans that dominates the tenor here, but it is not the only one.

There was a monotone of desolation as she went on speaking in a whisper meant for the ears of no other.

As you work through the collection, the scenes become more stagnant, more still, as desolation takes over.

Word Value for desolation
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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