disconsolate

Adjective
Synonyms: inconsolableunconsolablebluedarkdingydismalgloomygrimsorrydrabdreardreary

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  1. sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled“inconsolable when her son died”Synonyms: inconsolableunconsolable
  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”Synonyms: bluedarkdingydismalgloomygrimsorrydrabdreardreary
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Disconsolate \Dis*con"so*late\, n. Disconsolateness. [Obs.] --Barrow. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]

One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate.— Moore.[1913 Webster]
The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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