Synonyms of disconsolate

disconsolate

adjective

dis-ˈkän(t)-sə-lət 

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
• dark
• desolate
• solemn
• darkening
• lonesome
• morbid
• cold
• gray
• miserable
• depressed
• murky
• blue
• black
• morose
• wretched
• sullen
• cheerless
• sad
• forlorn
• funereal
• glum
• gloomy
• dismal
• lugubrious
• chill
• comfortless
• melancholy
• elegiac
• saturnine
• sepulchral
• dire
• dreary
• cloudy
• oppressive
• unhappy
• dejected
• drear
• desperate
• godforsaken
• inconsolable
• mournful
• woebegone
• despondent
• dreich
• hopeless
• tenebrous
• plutonian
• melancholic
• Cimmerian
• dull
• discouraging
• sunless
• distressful
• woeful
• distressing
• dim
• sorrowful
• mirthless
• tenebrific
• dispiriting
• upsetting
• dismaying
• negative
• pessimistic
• droopy
• grim
• hangdog
• disheartening
• low
• plaintive
• menacing
• lamentable
• down
• discomfiting
• drab
• dour
• colorless
• threatening
• lowering
• 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
• dejected
• sorrowful
• mournful
• disappointed
• downcast
• crestfallen
• hopeless
• uneasy
• forlorn
• inconsolable
• woebegone
• despondent
• troubled
• doleful
• glum
• heartsick
• gloomy
• melancholic
• hangdog
• distressed
• joyless
• brokenhearted
• wretched
• woeful
• blue
• 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
• rueful
• dismal
• gray
• comfortless
• dark
• funereal
• elegiac
• saturnine
• drear
• black
• dreary
• darkening
• murky

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• jubilant
• cheerful
• joyous
• joyful
• happy
• glad
• buoyant
• 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
• rosy
• elated
• gladsome
• exhilarated
• overjoyed
• gladdened
• spirited
• blithesome
• smiling
• jocund
• lively
• energetic
• entranced
• vivacious
• 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
• lighthearted
• insouciant
• boon
• beaming
• sprightful
• happy-go-lucky
• devil-may-care

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of disconsolate

Players were visibly disconsolate afterward, the sign of a team that expects to win every day. — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2026

As the Champions League anthem echoed around Villa Park, Liverpool’s disconsolate players headed for the tunnel. — James Pearce, New York Times, 16 May 2026

However, the short-term pain was acute, and Wrexham’s players sat on the ground and looked disconsolate after the final whistle — even though the Hull-Norwich match hadn’t finished. — Steve Douglas, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026

Amby is disconsolate on the drive home. — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025

After noticing disconsolate tourists wandering the perimeter, Taskinen proposed installing a café on the ground floor and restoring the building’s four spacious apartments into modest but comfortable rooms filled with Artek furniture. — Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025

My father, disconsolate, would pace around what had once been their home in an exaggerated performance of his own uselessness. — Hazlitt, 2 Apr. 2025