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English Dictionary: disconsolate	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for disconsolate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
disconsolate adj sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died" Synonym(s): inconsolable, disconsolate, unconsolable Antonym(s): consolable 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" Synonym(s): blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Disconsolate \Discon"solate\, n. Disconsolateness. [Obs.] --Barrow.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Disconsolate \Discon"solate\, 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. One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate. --Moore. The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. --Dryden. 2. Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. --Ray. Syn: Forlorn; melancholy; sorrowful; desolate; woeful; hopeless; gloomy. -- {Discon"solately}, adv. -- {Discon"solateness}, n.