In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
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
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
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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