Antonyms for de-solation
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : des-uh-ley-shuh n |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌdɛs əˈleɪ ʃən |
- advantage
- aid
- animation
- approval
- assistance
- assurance
- beginning
- benefit
- birth
- blessing
- boon
- brightness
- building
- bulge
- calm
- calmness
- capacity
- cause
- cautiousness
- cheer
- cheerfulness
- civilization
- closure
- collectedness
- comfort
- commencement
- composure
- confidence
- construction
- contentedness
- contentment
- convexity
- creation
- delight
- development
- ease
- easiness
- ecstasy
- encouragement
- enlargement
- enthusiasm
- euphoria
- exhilaration
- expansion
- fasting
- favor
- fill
- fortune
- fullness
- fun
- gain
- gladness
- glee
- good fortune
- good health
- good luck
- goodness
- growth
- happiness
- harmony
- health
- help
- hoarding
- hope
- hopefulness
- improvement
- incentive
- increase
- joy
- joyfulness
- joyousness
- kindness
- light
- like
- liking
- liveliness
- love
- luck
- miracle
- open
- opening
- order
- organization
- origin
- peace
- peacefulness
- pleasure
- possessions
- profit
- prosperity
- protuberance
- public
- recovery
- relief
- sanction
- satisfaction
- saving
- security
- sparkle
- start
- starvation
- success
- sunniness
- surge
- system
- togetherness
- trust
- vivaciousness
- win
- wonder
Definition of de-solation
Origin :- late 14c., "action of laying waste," also "sorrow, grief," from Old French desolacion (12c.) "desolation, devastation, hopelessness, despair," from Church Latin desolationem (nominative desolatio), noun of action from past participle stem of desolare (see desolate (adj.)). Meaning "condition of being ruined or wasted" is from early 15c.
- As in isolation : noun seclusion
- As in loneliness : noun isolation
- As in misery : noun pain, mental or physical
- As in pathos : noun deep sadness
- As in seclusion : noun isolation
- As in waste : noun spending, use without thought
- As in dereliction : noun abandonment
- As in wretchedness : noun misery
- As in catastrophe : noun calamity; unhappy conclusion
- As in blankness : noun emptiness
- As in downheartedness : noun gloom
- As in glumness : noun gloom
- As in heavy-heartedness : noun gloom
- As in hollowness : noun emptiness
- As in mournfulness : noun gloom
- As in reclusion : noun seclusion
- As in retirement : noun seclusion
- As in sequestration : noun seclusion
- As in vacuousness : noun emptiness
- As in consumption : noun devouring; use
- As in depredation : noun devastation, destruction
- As in depression : noun low spirits; despair
- As in desolation : noun uninhabitated area; barrenness
- As in desolation : noun distress, unhappiness
- As in desperation : noun hopelessness
- As in devastation : noun destruction
- As in disaster area : noun area affected by a general disaster
- As in dissatisfaction : noun discontent, unhappiness
- As in distress : noun pain, agony
- As in emptiness : noun void, bareness
- As in gloom : noun melancholy, depression
- As in grief : noun mental suffering
- As in havoc : noun chaotic situation
- As in heartbreak : noun mental or emotional misery
Synonyms for de-solation
- abasement
- abjection
- abjectness
- accident
- ache
- adversity
- affliction
- agony
- alienation
- alluvion
- aloneness
- aloofness
- anguish
- annoyance
- anvil chorus
- anxiety
- area of devastation
- aversion
- bad luck
- bad news
- bale
- bareness
- barrenness
- beleaguerment
- bemoaning
- bereavement
- bewailing
- bitterness
- blahs
- blank
- blankness
- bleakness
- blockade
- blow
- blue devils
- blue funk
- blues
- boredom
- broken heart
- bummer
- burglary
- burning
- calamity
- care
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- catatonia
- chagrin
- chaos
- chasm
- cheerlessness
- complaint
- concealment
- concern
- confinement
- confusion
- consuming
- contretemps
- crash
- crime
- crisis zone
- cross
- culmination
- curtains
- damage
- debacle
- decay
- decrease
- defoliation
- dejection
- demolition
- denouement
- depletedness
- depletion
- deploring
- depredation
- depression
- desecration
- desert
- desertedness
- desertion
- desolation
- despair
- desperation
- despoiling
- despondence
- despondency
- destitution
- destruction
- detachment
- devastation
- dilapidation
- diminution
- disappointment
- disapproval
- disaster
- disaster relief area
- discomfort
- disconsolateness
- disconsolation
- discontent
- discouragement
- disfavor
- disgruntlement
- disinclination
- dislike
- disliking
- dismals
- dismay
- disorder
- dispersion
- dispiritedness
- displeasure
- disquiet
- disquietude
- disrelish
- disruption
- dissipation
- dissolution
- distaste
- distraction
- distress
- disuse
- doldrums
- dole
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedn
- downheartedness
- dreariness
- drinking
- dullness
- dumps
- dysphoria
- earthquake zone
- eating
- embarrassment
- emergency
- emergency area
- emotion
- end
- ennui
- envy
- exasperation
- exhaustion
- exile
- expenditure
- extinction
- extravagance
- failure
- fatality
- fear
- feeling
- fiasco
- finale
- flood zone
- foreboding
- forlornness
- forsaking
- fretfulness
- friendlessness
- fritter
- frustration
- funk
- gap
- gloom
- gloominess
- glumness
- grief
- grievance
- harassment
- hardship
- havoc
- headache
- heartache
- heartbreak
- heartburn
- heartsickness
- heaviness
- heaviness of heart
- heavy heart
- heavy-heartedness
- heavyheartedness
- hiding
- hollowness
- hopelessness
- horror
- hot spot
- hurting
- ill
- improvidence
- inanition
- inanity
- indisposition
- infelicity
- infliction
- irritation
- isolation
- jealousy
- lamentation
- lamenting
- lavishness
- laying waste
- loneliness
- lonesomeness
- loss
- lost opportunity
- low spirits
- low-spiritedness
- lowness
- lugubriosity
- malaise
- malcontent
- malcontentment
- marauding
- mayhem
- melancholia
- melancholy
- meltdown
- misadventure
- misapplication
- mischance
- misery
- misfortune
- misgiving
- mishap
- misuse
- monkhood
- mope
- mopes
- morbidity
- mortification
- mournfulness
- mourning
- nothingness
- oppression
- ordeal
- overdoing
- pain
- pang
- passion
- path of destruction
- pensiveness
- perplexity
- pessimism
- pillage
- pitiableness
- pitifulness
- plaintiveness
- plunder
- poignance
- poignancy
- privacy
- privateness
- prodigality
- purgatory
- qualm
- quarantine
- querulousness
- rack and ruin
- ransacking
- rapine
- ravage
- ravages
- ravaging
- reclusion
- reclusiveness
- regret
- relinquishment
- remorse
- remoteness
- repining
- resentment
- retirement
- retreat
- reverse
- robbery
- rue
- ruin
- ruination
- sacking
- sadness
- saturninity
- scene of destruction
- scourge
- seclusion
- seclusiveness
- segregation
- sentiment
- separateness
- separation
- sequestration
- shambles
- shame
- shelter
- solitariness
- solitude
- sorrow
- spoliation
- squalor
- squander
- squandering
- stealing
- stew
- stitch
- storm center
- stroke
- suffering
- swallowing
- termination
- the blues
- the worst
- theft
- throe
- torment
- torture
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- twinge
- unconsolability
- uneasiness
- unhappiness
- unthriftiness
- upshot
- using up
- utilization
- vacancy
- vaccum
- vacuity
- vacuousness
- vacuum
- vandalism
- vapors
- vexation
- visitation
- void
- war zone
- wastage
- waste
- wastefulness
- wasting
- waterloo
- wear and tear
- weariness
- wildness
- withdrawal
- woe
- woefulness
- worriment
- worry
- wreck
- wreckage
- wretchedness
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