disconsolate
- adjective
- /ˌdɪsˈkɒnsəˌleɪt/
- Literature
:
desolador
- The children's disconsolate faces reflected their disappointment after the school trip was canceled.
Examples
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"And your sweet voice, like a bird "Singing love to its lone mate "In the ivory bower disconsolate;
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She was sinking back into her neurotic condition, and she kept him awake with her disconsolate mutterings and grunts.
Fiction book (1999) -
After losing her beloved pet, she felt totally disconsolate, unable to find joy in anything.
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He sat in his room, disconsolate, overwhelmed by the weight of his recent failures.
Synonyms
441
3.5
Feeling very sad and without hope
205
2.1
Feeling sad or unhappy
73
4.2
Sad and hopeless, making things seem very bad
62
4.5
Making you feel sad and hopeless
44
3.8
A gloomy, boring time that makes you feel sad or tired
19
7.5
Feeling very sad and alone because someone you love or something important is missing
18
7.7
Feeling very sad and without hope about the future
17
2.1
Making people feel sad because of how it looks or feels
11
6.7
Feeling very unhappy and alone after a loss
5
4.5
Feeling very sad and not hopeful
5
4.2
Feeling less hopeful and confident after a disappointment
5
5.4
Feeling sad and without hope
Antonyms
How Saddening
Surface Forms
Morphology
disconsolate = consolate (semi-transparent) = dis + consol + ate
Given the base adjective 'consolate', adding 'dis-' straightforwardly yields the sense 'not comforted or consoled'.
Etymology
Disconsolate comes from dis- 'not' and console 'to comfort', so it describes places or things that give no comfort. That's why a gray sky or an empty house can feel disconsolate, because they make people feel very unhappy.