🇬🇧🇪🇸 desolation - desolación : English Lesson

Meaning of "desolation" ("desolación"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Desolation is what you call a place when it feels totally empty, ruined, or lonely, like everything is gone and nothing happy is happening there anymore. It’s the quiet, sad feeling you get when you see somewhere that used to be full of life but now looks broken or deserted.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

Our sandcastle kingdom fell, and the flat, soggy beach was a scene of tragic desolation and one surviving plastic shovel.

The desolation of the movie theater floor after everyone left popcorn everywhere looked like a buttery battlefield.

The desolation of the art table after my baby sister’s “masterpiece” was just paint water and one lonely crayon survivor.

On Monday morning, the desolation of the playground, covered in forgotten mittens and a single shoe, told a mysterious story.

After a giant asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, it caused global desolation so big that it wiped out nearly all the dinosaurs—proving even T. rex couldn’t survive a really bad day.

She walked through the town; desolation lay in every street. Desolation clung to broken signs, desolation sat in empty doorways, desolation drifted from shattered windows, desolation spread like dust. She knelt, dug with bare hands, planted one tiny seed. The seed pushed green and she smiled, a small answer to desolation.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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