desolateness

noun

Definition of desolatenessnext
1
as in melancholy

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2
as in bleakness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for desolateness
  1. melancholy
  2. dejection
  3. nothingness
  4. oppression
  5. despair
  6. misery
  7. gloom
  8. desolation
Noun
  • To say more about the plot would spoil the film too much, but Ryder is really a chameleon, flickering between quiet melancholy, genuine affection, and darker, more selfish concerns, and the rotoscoping art style accentuates the expressiveness of her face.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
  • At 78, Ferry reigns as the elder statesman of rock-star romantics, the king of elegant melancholy.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of melancholy
Noun
  • Through June 2019, Zoe’s Kitchen was still rapidly deteriorating, and its financial losses and worker dejection were taking a toll on Cava.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Watson missed out on an additional $40,000 in the bonus round, prompting him to moan in dejection.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
Definition of dejection
Noun
  • The star stays visible for around a week, before fading back into nothingness for the best part of the next century.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • WandaVision’s Elizabeth Olsen recently opened up about her own frustrations performing inside the physical nothingness required to bring Marvel’s big-budget projects together in postproduction.
    Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 26 Sep. 2024
Definition of nothingness
Noun
  • Enslaved people fought daily against this system of oppression.
    Ana Lucia Araujo / Made by History, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This is the Chinese Communist Party's playbook for political oppression.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of oppression
Noun
  • The song puts me in a state of deep despair — these haunting strings and ghostly pianos and synthesizers.
    Nate Sloan, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
  • When the Great Depression hit in the early 1930s, Hitler and his followers were ready to take advantage of the German people’s despair and to focus their attention on a scapegoat—the political left and the Jews—as support for centrist political parties eroded.
    Christine Adams / Made by History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of despair
Noun
  • The Democratic Party should be put out of its misery.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • While a fair number of New Yorkers may be at home alone tonight, watching prestige-TV reruns and trying to enter a fugue state, plenty of us plan to lean into the misery (or joy) of watching the election results in numbers.
    Curbed Staff, Curbed, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of misery
Noun
  • And the evening wasn’t all doom and gloom for the Wilson family.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 24 Oct. 2024
  • After two years of doom and gloom, digital health deals are showing signs of life, with venture capital firms making more focused bets and interest rate cuts rekindling some of the COVID-era optimism around the sector.
    Tina Reed, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of gloom
Noun
  • The story ends with a description of the misery and desolation that Mishima (the character, and, presumably, the author) has felt, his fundamental aloneness.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The current conflagration in Myanmar will lead to even more desolation.
    Derek J. Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 15 Apr. 2021
Definition of desolation
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