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Disconsolate

Disconsolate Meaning & Definition
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

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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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