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. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
disconsolate
adj 1: sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled;
"inconsolable when her son died" [syn: inconsolable,
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, depressing, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy,
grim]
WordNet (r) 2.0
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "disconsolate":
affording no hope, apathetic, bad, black, bleak, cheerless, cold,
comfortless, crestfallen, crushed, cut up, deep-troubled, dejected,
depressed, depressing, desolate, desole, despairing, desperate,
despondent, dismal, dispirited, doleful, down, downhearted, drear,
forlorn, grim, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartsick, heartsore,
hopeless, in despair, inconsolable, joyless, low, melancholy,
miserable, sick, sick at heart, somber, sorrowful, soul-sick,
stricken, suicidal, unconsolable, unhappy, unhopeful, without hope,
woebegone, woeful, wretched
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
blue, dark, depressing, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, inconsolable, unconsolable
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