Словарь синонимов английского языка - desolation

(n) 1. destruction, ruin, devastation, waste, spoliation, despoliation, sack, depredation, extirpation, obliteration, bavagement, barrenness, havoc, chaos: We had to shape a new life from the desolation left by the war. 2. grief, sorrow, dreariness, despair, gloom, distress, melancholy, sadness, misery, woe, anguish, wretchedness, dolour, dolefulness, unhappiness: She felt the desolation of loneliness after her husband's death.