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Webster 1913 Edition
Disconsolate
Dis-con′so-late
,Noun.
Disconsolateness.
[Obs.]
Barrow.
Dis-con′so-late
,Adj.
1.
Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief;
as, a bereaved and
. disconsolate
parentOne morn a Peri at the gate
Of Eden stood
Of Eden stood
disconsolate
. Moore.
The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh,
Were dropping wet,
– Were dropping wet,
disconsolate
and wan. Dryden.
Dis-con′so-late-ly
, adv.
Dis-con′so-late-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Disconsolate
DISCONSOLATE
,Adj.
1.
Destitute of comfort or consolation; sorrowful; hopeless or not expecting comfort; sad; dejected; melancholy; as a parent, bereaved of an only child and disconsolate.2.
Not affording comfort; cheerless; as the disconsolate darkness of a winters night.Definition 2024
disconsolate
disconsolate
English
Adjective
disconsolate (comparative more disconsolate, superlative most disconsolate)
- Cheerless, dreary.
- I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille (in The Guardian, 26 November 2013)
- Özil looked a little disconsolate when he was substituted late on, though he did set up Wilshere's second with a lovely pass off the outside of his left boot.
- 1897, W.S.Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 1.
- Worst off of all were the very young children, for there had been no rain for weeks, and the street was as dry and clean as a covered court, and, in the lack of mud to wallow in, they sat about the road, disconsolate as poets.
- 1885, Robert L. Steveson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, chapter 7.
- Sitting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.
- Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
- For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.
Synonyms
- (cheerless, dreary): bleak, dreary, downcast
- (beyond consolation): dejected, inconsolable, unconsolable
Antonyms
Translations
cheerless, dreary
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inconsolable
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Derived terms
Noun
disconsolate
- (obsolete) Disconsolateness.
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