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
  • Best of Friends - The Fox and the Hound (1981) Pearl Bailey’s warm vocals paint a portrait of a friendship against all odds, tinged with an undercurrent of melancholy that foreshadows the pair's eventual falling out.
    Barry Levitt, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024
  • After the phone call from the doctor, Annie, who was already experiencing bouts of melancholy after Zoë’s birth, sank into a depression.
    Julia Whelan Krish Seenivasan Lance Neal, New York Times, 25 Nov. 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
  • At this point, resisting the urge to rotate, the superfluid suddenly spawns a single quantum vortex — a whorl of atoms surrounding a column of nothingness that extends to the bottom of the bucket.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
  • 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
Definition of nothingness
Noun
  • Rasoulof has talked about purposefully making his films less allegorical as his career has progressed, preferring to present his stories about oppression and totalitarianism plainly, so that his resentments are indisputable.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Two unidentified staff members were offered a plea deal for their charge of official oppression after slamming a child’s head into a brick pillar and spitting on him as he was dragged away to solitary confinement.
    Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of oppression
Noun
  • Just over 100 years later in 1592, Shakespeare vilified him as a hunchback, giving him the famous cry of despair about a horse as his last line.
    Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
  • The teen was in despair and struggling with suicidal thoughts, according to his mother, Carolyn Fisher.
    SHARON LURYE, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of despair
Noun
  • Demagogues began to blame the labor competition posed by increasing numbers of Chinese immigrants for the miseries of white joblessness and meager pay.
    Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Rubio has apportioned the blame for the recent misery in the region to Iran's leadership.
    Billal Rahman, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of misery
Noun
  • Doom and gloom First released in North America on Nov. 21, 2004, the Nintendo DS arrived at a time when the air around the company was thick with the looming threat of defeat.
    Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Western red cedar, and the thick gloom of western hemlocks with their feathery branches, loom large.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of gloom
Noun
  • Her 2001 memoir, A Life’s Work, was savaged by the British press for its frank portrayal of the desolation of early motherhood.
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 28 June 2024
  • 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
Definition of desolation
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