Disconsolate
[dɪs'kɒns(ə)lət] or [dɪs'kɑnsələt]
Definition
(n.) Disconsolateness.
(v. t.) Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent.
(v. t.) Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights.
Editor: Sallust
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Inconsolable, desolate, forlorn, heart-broken, broken-hearted, comfortless, cheerless, sorrowful, melancholy, sad.
Edited by Karl
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sad, forlorn, melancholy, inconsolable, brokenhearted, sorrowful, unhappy,desolate, woful
ANT:Joyous, cheerful, merry, happy, gay, jovial, gladsome, blithe
Checked by Eugene
Definition
adj. without consolation or comfort: hopeless: sad.—adv. Discon′solately.—ns. Discon′solateness Disconsolā′tion.
Checker: Lorenzo
Examples
- While they were doing so, Riderhood still sat staring disconsolate. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In one corner, near a small fire, sat an old man, leaning his head on his hands in a disconsolate attitude. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- What a pitiable, forlorn, disconsolate being I was! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The third, a Jeune Mère, hanging disconsolate over a clayey and puffy baby with a face like an unwholesome full moon. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And she majestically walked to and fro along their disconsolate and impatient line, like a little Bonaparte in a mouse-coloured silk gown. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Tom rose, disconsolate, and stumbled into the cabin that had been allotted to him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- So spake Riderhood, staring disconsolate. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr Boffin, for his part, made no attempt to come down, but remained aloft disconsolate. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I think, Small, says the disconsolate Mr. Guppy, you might have mentioned that the old man was your uncle. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The disconsolate journalist had seated himself at a writing-table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The informer wiped his brow ruefully as he said it, sitting in his boat and always staring disconsolate. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Jo leaned her chin on her knees in a disconsolate attitude and shook her fist at the reprehensible John. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Checker: Lorenzo