disconsolate
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
disconsolate
- Cheerless, dreary.
- Synonyms: bleak, dreary, downcast, Thesaurus:cheerless
- I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille (in The Guardian, 26 November 2013)
- 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.
- 1897, W.S.Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 1.
- 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.
- 1885, Robert L. Steveson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, chapter 7.
- Sitting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.
- Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
- Synonyms: dejected, inconsolable, unconsolable
- Antonyms: consolable
- For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.
- German: trostlos
- Portuguese: melancólico
- Russian: печа́льный
- Spanish: desconsolado
- French: inconsolable
- German: untröstlich
- Portuguese: desconsolado, desamparado
- Russian: безуте́шный
- Spanish: desconsolado
disconsolate
- (obsolete) Disconsolateness.
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