'Disconsolateness' definitions:
Definition of 'disconsolateness'
(from WordNet)
noun
Feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless [syn: despondency, despondence, heartsickness, disconsolateness]
Definition of 'Disconsolateness'
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]