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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled;
- Example: "inconsolable when her son died"
[syn: inconsolable, disconsolate, unconsolable]

2. causing dejection;
- Example: "a blue day"
- Example: "the dark days of the war"
- Example: "a week of rainy depressing weather"
- Example: "a disconsolate winter landscape"
- Example: "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
- Example: "a dark gloomy day"
- Example: "grim rainy weather"
[syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Disconsolate \Dis*con"so*late\, n.
   Disconsolateness. [Obs.] --Barrow.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Disconsolate \Dis*con"so*late\, a. [LL. disconsolatus; L. dis- +
   consolatus, p. p. of consolari to console. See Console, v.
   t.]
   1. Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited;
      hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a
      bereaved and disconsolate parent.
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            One morn a Peri at the gate
            Of Eden stood disconsolate.           --Moore.
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            The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh,
            Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. --Dryden.
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   2. Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the
      disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. --Ray.

   Syn: Forlorn; melancholy; sorrowful; desolate; woeful;
        hopeless; gloomy. -- Dis*con"so*late*ly, adv. --
        Dis*con"so*late*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

disconsolate
    adj 1: sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled;
           "inconsolable when her son died" [syn: inconsolable,
           disconsolate, unconsolable] [ant: consolable]
    2: 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" [syn: blue,
       dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim,
       sorry, drab, drear, dreary]