disconsolate
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adjective \dis-ˈkän(t)-sə-lət\Definition of DISCONSOLATE
1
: cheerless <a clutch of disconsolate houses — D. H. Lawrence>
2
— dis·con·so·late·ly adverb
— dis·con·so·late·ness noun
— dis·con·so·la·tion \(ˌ)dis-ˌkän(t)-sə-ˈlā-shən\ noun
See Examples of DISCONSOLATE
- Campaign workers grew increasingly disconsolate as the results came in.
- <spent her last years in the disconsolate environs of a cheap boarding house>
Origin of DISCONSOLATE
Middle English, from Medieval Latin disconsolatus, from Latin dis- + consolatus, past participle of consolari to console
First Known Use: 14th century
Related to DISCONSOLATE
- Synonyms
- black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, gloomy, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
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