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Disconsolate   Listen
noun
Disconsolate  n.  Disconsolateness. (Obs.)


adjective
Disconsolate  adj.  
1.
Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent. "One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate." "The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan."
2.
Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights.
Synonyms: Forlorn; melancholy; sorrowful; desolate; woeful; hopeless; gloomy.





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"Disconsolate" Quotes from Famous Books



... flowers that Steele now brought me, but stern peremptory command to "get out!" He was unusually irate, first at having been wakened out of his sleep, and secondly at having in probably unique circumstances been caught napping at the post of duty. I went forth disconsolate, and there was a great hubbub in the dark little room outside. My friend and co-conspirator fled in affright when he saw me actually enter the gallery. Now he dropped in in a casual way, and stood at the edge of the crowd ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... work of the day and said to them: "I have made you some aimless songs out of the small unreasonable legends, that are somewhat akin to the wind in the vales of my childhood; and you may care to sing them in your disconsolate evenings." ...
— Fifty-One Tales • Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]
... in the parlor chatting with Gussie, Dexie came into the room on some errand, and her slight bow of recognition gave him an opportunity to ask, in his sneering manner, if she was "keeping her smiles for the disconsolate lovers she had left ...
— Miss Dexie - A Romance of the Provinces • Stanford Eveleth
... rebellious, disconsolate Netta flung herself through the doorway and flounced to her desk. She gave one stare at Gwen, and, frowning, began to get out ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil
... except that I have some bankruptcy business to do, and a couple of sovereigns to receive. So here I am, with three of the ugliest attorneys that ever deserved to be transported sitting opposite to me; a disconsolate-looking bankrupt, his hands in his empty pockets, standing behind; a lady scolding for her money, and refusing to be comforted because it is not; and a surly butcher-like looking creditor, growling like a house-dog, and saying, as plain as looks can say "If ...
— Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay • George Otto Trevelyan


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