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Disconsolate

Disconsolate Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Disconsolate? [adj] 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" [adj] sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Disconsolate: blue \| cheerless \| dark \| depressing \| desolate \| dismal \| dispiriting \| gloomy \| grim \| inconsolable \| uncheerful \| unconsolable Related Terms \| Find terms related to 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 \| heartsick \| heartsore \| heart-stricken \| heart-struck \| 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 See Also \| Disconsolate In Webster's Dictionary \Discon"solate\, n. Disconsolateness. [Obs.] --Barrow. \Discon"solate\, 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. One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate. --Moore. The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. --Dryden. 2. Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. --Ray. Syn: Forlorn; melancholy; sorrowful; desolate; woeful; hopeless; gloomy. -- {Discon"solately}, adv. -- {Discon"solateness}, n.

Disconsolate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Disconsolate?

[adj] 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"
[adj] sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died"

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Disconsolate In Webster's Dictionary

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


\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.

         One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood
         disconsolate.                         --Moore.

         The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were
         dropping wet, disconsolate and wan.   --Dryden.

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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