desolation

n

1. destruction, ruination, holocaust, demolition, ruin, havoc; spoliation, despoliation, despoilment, ravage, pillage, plunder, sack; rapine, ravishment, predation, depredation; depopulation, unpeopling.

2. devastation, waste, wreckage, ravagement; extermination, extirpation, obliteration, annihilation; nothingness, void, non-being, nullity, nonexistence, absolute, absence.

3. dreariness, barrenness, gloom, gloominess, dismalness, dismality, desolateness; bleakness, emptiness, darkness, blackness, bareness.

4. loneliness, lonesomeness, forlornness; solitude, solitariness, isolation, sequestration, seclusion.

5. disconsolateness, despondency, despair, dejection, depression; sorrow, grief, dolor, affliction, tribulation; woe, anguish, misery, wretchedness, agony, suffering; sadness, melancholy, dolefulness.

6. vastness, Archaic. vastity, emptiness, wilderness, desert, wasteland.