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DISCONSOLATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing dejection
Example:
grim rainy weather
Synonyms:
blue; dark; dingy; disconsolate; dismal; drab; drear; dreary; gloomy; grim; sorry
Classified under:
Similar:
cheerless; depressing; uncheerful (causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled
Example:
inconsolable when her son died
Synonyms:
disconsolate; inconsolable; unconsolable
Classified under:
Similar:
desolate (crushed by grief)
Derivation:
disconsolateness (feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless)
Context examples:
The times were changed, however, and the forest tracks wound away from them deserted and silent, with no trample of war-horse or clang of armor which might herald the approach of an adversary—so that Sir Nigel rode on his way disconsolate.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A great fall of snow had taken place the night before, and the fields were of one uniform white; the appearance was disconsolate, and I found my feet chilled by the cold damp substance that covered the ground.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
We were a disconsolate party, for nothing could have been more minute than our investigation, and it was absolutely certain that there was no single point where the most active human being could possibly hope to scale the cliff.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was not long in recollecting Mrs. Steerforth's little parlour-maid, who had formerly worn blue ribbons in her cap. She had taken them out now, to adapt herself, I suppose, to the altered character of the house; and wore but one or two disconsolate bows of sober brown.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
During one of their walks a poor cot in the foldings of a vale attracted their notice as being singularly disconsolate, while the number of half-clothed children gathered about it spoke of penury in its worst shape.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A murmur of voices had been audible on the outside, and, at the moment of our entrance, a clapping of hands: which latter noise, I was surprised to see, proceeded from the generally disconsolate Mrs. Gummidge.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
