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
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
disconsolate
(obsolete) Disconsolateness.
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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
10 March 2025
(adjective) celebrated in fable or legend; “the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox”; “legendary exploits of Jesse James”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
