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
  • When the Padres signed Bogaerts, a major league scout with a neutral team said several baseball folks with the Red Sox felt a sense of melancholy.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
  • There’s action and scares, but also human melancholy and a deep mystery.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of melancholy
Noun
  • Just like that, an entire team’s optimism and energy turned into dejection and disbelief.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The day after a high-stakes presidential election usually brings elation on one side and dejection for the other.
    Daniel Wine, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of dejection
Noun
  • Quantum mechanics, the theory governing the infinitesimal world, doesn’t allow for nothingness.
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Our phones now have hundreds of photos on them and videos of just pure baby nothingness.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of nothingness
Noun
  • Corbet has made a fetish of ambition — the actor-turned-director’s own attempt at grandiloquent filmmaking and the ambition of his protagonist Laszlo Toth (Adrien Brody), a refugee from Nazi oppression.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2025
  • After Clone Force 99 debuted in the final season of The Clone Wars and their spinoff show was rapidly announced, expectations weren't super high for yet another on-screen story about the Galactic Empire's reign of terror and oppression, an overdone point in the Star Wars timeline.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 28 Dec. 2024
Definition of oppression
Noun
  • Antonio scored an early opener and Jarrod Bowen was denied from close range shortly after, with Moyes falling to the ground in despair.
    Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Carter later credited that sacrifice for pulling him from his despair and eventually leading him to found The Carter Presidential Center -- a multifaceted nonprofit aimed at promoting human rights, with missions as varied as election monitoring and eradicating parasitic diseases.
    Shannon K. Kingston, ABC News, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of despair
Noun
  • Middleton put the possession out of its misery with what turned into a decent look on an off-the-bounce midrange jumper, but the entire possession lacked purpose.
    Eric Nehm, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Carter’s true legacy is one of economic misery at home and embarrassment on the world stage.
    Philip Klein, National Review, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of misery
Noun
  • Much doom and gloom was aimed at the electric car world in 2024.
    Jeremy White, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The media, our social media feeds and our most pessimistic friends fill us with doom and gloom stories.
    Axios, Axios, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of gloom
Noun
  • Singing with heartbreaking sweetness of both familiar desolation and fresh hope, Pratt’s voice remains the music’s animating spirit.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Its peaceful stillness and silence can become desolation, and its beautiful bleakness a portent of doom.
    Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of desolation
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