DISCONSOLATE

blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary

(adjective) 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”

inconsolable, disconsolate, unconsolable

(adjective) sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; “inconsolable when her son died”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

disconsolate (comparative more disconsolate, superlative most disconsolate)

Cheerless, dreary.

Synonyms: bleak, dreary, downcast, Thesaurus:cheerless

Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.

Synonyms: dejected, inconsolable, unconsolable

Antonym: consolable

Noun

disconsolate

(obsolete) Disconsolateness.

Anagrams

• consolidates

Source: Wiktionary

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Dis*con"so*late, n.

Definition: Disconsolateness. [Obs.] Barrow.

Dis*con"so*late, a. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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