'Disconsolate' definitions:
Definition of 'disconsolate'
From: WordNet
adjective
Sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died" [syn: inconsolable, disconsolate, unconsolable] [ant: consolable]
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" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
Definition of 'Disconsolate'
From: GCIDE
- Disconsolate \Dis*con"so*late\, n. Disconsolateness. [Obs.] --Barrow. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Disconsolate'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'disconsolate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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