disconsolate
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Adjective (2)
- sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled“inconsolable when her son died”Synonyms: inconsolableunconsolableOpposite consolableSimilar desolate
- causing dejection“a blue day”“the dark days of the war”“a week of rainy depressing weather”“a disconsolate winter landscape”“the first dismal dispiriting days of November”“a dark gloomy day”“grim rainy weather”Synonyms: bluedarkdingydismalgloomygrimsorrydrabdreardrearyOpposite cheerfulSimilar depressing, cheerless
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Dis·con′so·late noun
Disconsolateness. obsolete Isaac Barrow
Dis·con′so·late adjective
Origin: LL. disconsolatus; L. dis- + consolatus, p. p. of consolari to console. See Console, transitive verb
1. Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent.
One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate.— Thomas Moore
The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan.— John Dryden
2. Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. John Ray
Synonyms: Forlorn; melancholy; sorrowful; desolate; woeful; hopeless; gloomy.
— Dis·con′wb-a1′>′so·late·ly, adverb — Dis·con′wb-a1′>′so·late·ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54