1
as in melancholy
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2
as in bleakness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for desolateness
Noun
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Still, there is an undeniable air of melancholy to his movements since that move.—
Jack Lang,
The Athletic,
9 Feb. 2025 -
The song captures both melancholy and resilience, reflecting Knowles’ mastery of storytelling through song.—
SPIN Contributor,
SPIN,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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All that positivity evaporated in the opening seconds on Saturday, with that hope being replaced by anger, recrimination and dejection.—
Rob Tanner,
The Athletic,
3 Feb. 2025
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Just like that, an entire team’s optimism and energy turned into dejection and disbelief.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Nov. 2024
Noun
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If Derek Jeter invented the strategy of preemptive blandness, a verbal jiu-jitsu move that cloaks every utterance in a gauze of impenetrable nothingness, Tom Brady has earned a Vantablack® belt in the discipline.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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To cushion their sinuous eucalyptus forms, the duo came up with their own spin on traditional Banarasi fabric: an archival herringbone motif overlaid with numerical zeros that nod to Brahmagupta, the Hindu mathematician who developed the concept of nothingness in 628 AD.—
Mel Studach,
Architectural Digest,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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When Steve finds out that HYDRA is embedded in the infrastructure of the American government in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), policy and systemic oppression isn’t addressed.—
Richard Newby,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2025
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Much of the film, however, explores Vital’s experience as a Spanish immigrant who moved from southern Extremadura to Barcelona, escaping gross poverty and rural oppression under dictator Francisco Franco.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
8 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Artists showcase the range of life’s emotions — the loftiest heights of joy and the depths of despair.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
12 Feb. 2025
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Few recent documentaries seem so committed to insisting viewers sit in their despair without any glimmer of release or catharsis.—
Tim Grierson,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Isn’t a life without mountains of money better than a life monopolized by misery?—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
7 Feb. 2025
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The act led to retaliatory tariffs by other countries and is widely seen as exacerbating the economic misery of the Depression.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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That’s not always easy with the onslaught of doom and gloom we’re met with.—
Raisa Habersham,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2025
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Lyles was asked if the sense of doom and gloom was a product of all the uncertainty surrounding the team with the trade deadline looming.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacramento Bee,
2 Feb. 2025
Noun
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How will the last cockeyed optimist in popular culture deal with the desolation of a husband’s death?—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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Wildfires in the Los Angeles area still burn, but the desolation has already left 10 dead and more than 10,000 structures destroyed.—
Mike Snider,
USA TODAY,
10 Jan. 2025
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