desolation (n.)

• abandonment
• agony
• anguish
• bale
• barren
• barrenness
• bitterness
• bloodbath
• breakup
• brush
• bush
• carnage
• chaos
• consumption
• crushing
• damnation
• decimation
• defenselessness
• depopulation
• depredation
• depression
• desert
• desertion
• despair
• despoilment
• despoliation
• destruction
• devastation
• disconsolateness
• disintegration
• disorganization
• disruption
• dissolution
• distress
• dolor
• dreariness
• excruciation
• extirpation
• extremity
• forlornness
• gloom
• grief
• havoc
• heartache
• heartbreak
• heartsickness
• heath
• hecatomb
• helplessness
• holocaust
• homelessness
• infelicity
• melancholia
• melancholy
• misery
• obliteration
• prostration
• ravage
• ruin
• ruination
• sack
• sadness
• shambles
• slaughter
• sorrow
• spoliation
• torment
• torture
• undoing
• unhappiness
• vandalism
• waste
• wasteland
• wild
• wilderness
• woe
• wrack
• wreck
• wretchedness