desolation   (Sound)

The noun desolation has 4 senses

• devastation, desolation -- (the state of being decayed or destroyed)


• bleakness, desolation, bareness, nakedness -- (a bleak and desolate atmosphere; "the nakedness of the landscape")


• forlornness, loneliness, desolation -- (sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned)


• devastation, desolation -- (an event that results in total destruction)