Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: die verwoesting
- Amharic: desolation
- Arabic: الخراب
- Azerbaijani: baxımsızlıq üzündən yararsız hala düşən
- Bashkir: ябырыла
- Belarusian: запусценне
- Bulgarian: опустошението
- Bengali: নির্জনতা
- Bosnian: pustoš
- Catalan: la desolació
- Cebuano: sa desolation
- Czech: zoufalství
- Welsh: anghyfannedd
- Danish: desolation
- German: Verwüstung
- Greek: ερήμωση
- Esperanto: dezertigo
- Spanish: la desolación
- Estonian: desolation
- Basque: hondamendia
- Persian: ویرانی
- Finnish: hävitys
- French: la désolation
- Irish: desolation
- Scottish Gaelic: musicbrainz
- Galician: desolación
- Gujarati: તારાજી
- Hebrew: שממה
- Hindi: वीरानी
- Croatian: pustoš
- Haitian: île
- Hungarian: pusztító
- Armenian: ավերածություն
- Indonesian: kesedihan
- Icelandic: auðn
- Italian: desolazione
- Japanese: 荒廃
- Javanese: sepi mamring
- Georgian: desolation
- Kazakh: запустение
- Khmer: វិនា
- Kannada: ವಿನಾಶ
- Korean: 황폐
- Kyrgyz: запустение
- Latin: desolationem
- Luxembourgish: Zerstéierung
- Lao: ເປົ່າ
- Lithuanian: desolation
- Latvian: bēdas
- Malagasy: faharavana
- Mari: пустаҥше
- Maori: ururua
- Macedonian: пустелијата
- Malayalam: desolation
- Mongolian: эзгүйрэл
- Marathi: नाश
- Hill Mari: охыремшӹ
- Malay: ketandusan
- Maltese: ħsara
- Burmese: ဖတ္မိ
- Nepali: उजाड हुनेछ
- Dutch: verwoesting
- Norwegian: desolation
- Punjabi: ਤਬਾਹੀ
- Papiamento: e horor
- Polish: spustoszenia
- Portuguese: desolação
- Romanian: dezolare
- Russian: запустение
- Sinhalese: පාළු
- Slovak: desolation
- Slovenian: desolation
- Albanian: shkretimi
- Serbian: пустоши
- Sundanese: desolation
- Swedish: förödelse
- Swahili: ukiwa
- Tamil: உயிரற்று
- Telugu: చూచినప్పుడు,
- Tajik: запустение
- Thai: desolation
- Tagalog: lagim
- Turkish: ıssızlık
- Tatar: запустение
- Udmurt: тырттэм
- Ukrainian: запустіння
- Urdu: اجاڑ
- Uzbek: nochor ahvolning
- Vietnamese: tàn phá
- Xhosa: inkangala
- Yiddish: עלנט
- Chinese: 荒凉
Synonyms, close and similar words for desolation
- state of neglect
- squalor
- solitude
- loneliness
- devastation
- depredations
- havoc
- decimation
- dilapidation
- demolition
- ravage
- ruin
- ruination
- destruction
- neglect
- despair
- desperation
- despondence
- forlornness
- abandonment
- desert
- waste
- dejection
- melancholy
- despondency
- depression
- heath
- barren