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Meaning of disconsolate in English
Pronunciation
/ˌdɪsˈkɑns(ə)lət/
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Classifying Adjective
disconsolate
Definitions
1.
causing dejection
Examples
« a blue day »
« the dark days of the war »
« a week of rainy depressing weather »
« a disconsolate winter landscape »
« the first dismal dispiriting days of November »
« a dark gloomy day »
« grim rainy weather »
Synonyms
cheerless
uncheerful
Qualitative Adjective
disconsolate
Etymology
late Middle English: from medieval Latin disconsolatus, from dis- (expressing reversal) + Latin consolatus (past participle of consolari‘to console’)
Definitions
1.
sad beyond comforting
Examples
« incapable of being consoled »
« inconsolable when her son died »
Synonyms
desolate
Antonyms
consolable