desolation

Other forms of desolation

plural

desolations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about desolation

What does desolation mean?

desolation means "the state of being decayed or destroyed". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in desolation?

desolation has 4 syllables: des-o-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˌdɛsəˈleɪʃən/.

What is another word for desolation?

Close synonyms include devastation, bleakness, bareness, nakedness, forlornness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is desolation a common word?

desolation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with desolation?

65 words rhyme with desolation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.