Meaning of DISCONSOLATE
| Pronunciation: | | dis'kânsulit
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- [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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| | Synonyms: | | blue, cheerless, dark, depressing, desolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, inconsolable, uncheerful, unconsolable |
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| | Antonyms: | | consolable | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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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