Definitions for: Disconsolate


[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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: blue, cheerless, dark, depressing, desolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, inconsolable, uncheerful, unconsolable

Antonyms: consolable

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