Synonyms of disconsolate

disconsolate

adjective

1

as in bleak

causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer

spent her last years in the disconsolate environs of a cheap boarding house

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bleak
• lonely
• depressing
• somber
• depressive
• desolate
• darkening
• dark
• lonesome
• solemn
• morbid
• gray
• cold
• murky
• grey
• depressed
• miserable
• blue
• black
• morose
• wretched
• cheerless
• sullen
• forlorn
• sad
• sombre
• funereal
• glum
• gloomy
• dismal
• lugubrious
• chill
• comfortless
• melancholy
• elegiac
• saturnine
• sepulchral
• drear
• dire
• dreary
• cloudy
• oppressive
• unhappy
• dejected
• desperate
• godforsaken
• inconsolable
• woebegone
• dreich
• despondent
• hopeless
• elegiacal
• plutonian
• mournful
• tenebrous
• melancholic
• Cimmerian
• hangdog
• sunless
• discouraging
• dull
• distressful
• woeful
• distressing
• tenebrific
• dim
• mirthless
• sorrowful
• dispiriting
• negative
• dismaying
• upsetting
• grim
• droopy
• pessimistic
• discomfiting
• disheartening
• low
• menacing
• plaintive
• lamentable
• down
• drab
• dour
• colorless
• threatening
• louring
• lowering
• loury
• lowery

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cheerful
• bright
• friendly
• gay
• comforting
• cheery
• festive
• cordial
• joyous
• merry
• joyful
• jolly
• buoyant
• gay
• sunshiny
• blithe
• optimistic
• mirthful
• hopeful
• cheering
• encouraging
• heartwarming
• blithesome
• jocund
• lighthearted
• lightsome

2

as in unhappy

feeling unhappiness

she was utterly disconsolate when her best friend moved away

Synonyms & Similar Words

• unhappy
• sad
• depressed
• heartbroken
• miserable
• melancholy
• upset
• sorry
• bad
• worried
• sorrowful
• dejected
• mournful
• disappointed
• hopeless
• downcast
• crestfallen
• uneasy
• forlorn
• inconsolable
• woebegone
• despondent
• troubled
• doleful
• glum
• heartsick
• gloomy
• melancholic
• hangdog
• distressed
• joyless
• wretched
• brokenhearted
• blue
• woeful
• depressing
• saddened
• downhearted
• droopy
• suicidal
• low-spirited
• down
• despairing
• heartsore
• heavyhearted
• discouraged
• low
• down in the mouth
• aggrieved
• tearful
• grieving
• cast down
• dispirited
• weeping
• sunk
• bleak
• disheartened
• unquiet
• anguished
• desolate
• somber
• lugubrious
• plaintive
• regretful
• morose
• lachrymose
• cheerless
• dolorous
• sullen
• wailing
• morbid
• agonized
• sombre
• rueful
• grey
• dismal
• gray
• comfortless
• dark
• funereal
• elegiac
• saturnine
• drear
• black
• dreary
• darkening
• murky
• elegiacal

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• jubilant
• joyous
• cheerful
• joyful
• happy
• buoyant
• glad
• blissful
• cheery
• exultant
• gleeful
• sunny
• delighted
• exuberant
• upbeat
• rapturous
• ecstatic
• buoyed
• merry
• enraptured
• euphoric
• jolly
• jovial
• chipper
• optimistic
• blithe
• mirthful
• rhapsodic
• hopeful
• excited
• jocose
• sanguine
• jocular
• jocund
• rosy
• elated
• gladsome
• exhilarated
• overjoyed
• rhapsodical
• gladdened
• spirited
• blithesome
• smiling
• lively
• energetic
• vivacious
• entranced
• satisfied
• jaunty
• vital
• laughing
• content
• lightsome
• perky
• bouncing
• frisky
• animated
• sprightly
• encouraged
• peppy
• gratified
• pleased
• careless
• unconcerned
• springy
• thrilled
• grinning
• carefree
• zippy
• heartened
• cavalier
• easygoing
• beaming
• lighthearted
• insouciant
• boon
• sprightful
• happy-go-lucky
• devil-may-care