4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Disconsolate \Dis*con"so*late\, n. Disconsolateness. [Obs.] --Barrow. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Disconsolate \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. [1913 Webster] One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: disconsolate adj 1: sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died" [syn: {inconsolable}, {unconsolable}] [ant: {consolable}] 2: 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" [syn: {blue}, {dark}, {depressing}, {dismal}, {dispiriting}, {gloomy}, {grim}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 53 Moby Thesaurus words for "disconsolate": 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, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartsick, heartsore, 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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