disconsolate
Adjective
- sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled
Adjective Satellite
- causing dejection
- "a disconsolate winter landscape"
Adj
- Cheerless, dreary.
- Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
Noun
- Disconsolateness.
Examples
- For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.
- I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.
Origin / Etymology
From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) + cōnsōlātus (“consoled”).
Synonyms
blue, dark, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, inconsolable, sorry, unconsolable, atrabiliary, atrabilious, bleak, blitheless, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, comfortless, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dire, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drearisome, dreich, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gayless, gloomsome, glum, gray, grief-stricken, grieving, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, no joke, passionate, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, somber, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, sunless, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unlively, unmerry, wintry, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
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