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Adjective

disconsolate (comparative more disconsolate, superlative most disconsolate)

  • Cheerless, dreary.
    • ✤ Synonyms: bleak, dreary, downcast; see also Thesaurus: cheerless
    • ✤ I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.
    • ✤ a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts,/With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits,/Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are,/And might, if my extreames had ful euents,/Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death.1
    • ✤ But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee[God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?2
    • ✤ Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean
      Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.      3
    • ✤ [S]itting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.4
    • ✤ Worst off of all were the very young children, for there had been no rain for weeks, and the street was as dry and clean as a covered court, and, in the lack of mud to wallow in, they sat about the road, disconsolate as poets.5
    • ✤ Özil looked a little disconsolate when he was substituted late on, though he did set up Wilshere’s second with a lovely pass off the outside of his left boot.6
  • Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
    • ✤ Synonyms: dejected, inconsolable, unconsolable; see also Thesaurus: sad
    • ✤ Antonym: consolable
    • ✤ For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.
    • ✤ overwhelmed with disconsolate sorrow7

Noun

disconsolate

  • (obsolete) Disconsolateness.

Etymology

From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) +‎ cōnsōlātus (“consoled”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt/
  • (US) IPA: /dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt/
    • Audio (Southern England): 🔊

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Footnotes

  1. c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii: ↩

  2. 1624, John Donne, “13. Prayer”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 329: ↩

  3. 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC,: ↩

  4. 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Incident at the Window”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 63: ↩

  5. 1897, W.S.Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 1. ↩

  6. 2013 November 26, Daniel Taylor, “”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian ‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC: ↩

  7. a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume, London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC: ↩

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