First Known Use: 14th century
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disconsolate
adjective dis·con·so·late \dis-ˈkän(t)-sə-lət\
: very unhappy or sad
Full Definition of DISCONSOLATE
1
: cheerless <a clutch of disconsolate houses — D. H. Lawrence>
2
— dis·con·so·late·ly adverb
— dis·con·so·late·ness noun
— dis·con·so·la·tion \(ˌ)dis-ˌkän(t)-sə-ˈlā-shən\ noun
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Origin of DISCONSOLATE
Middle English, from Medieval Latin disconsolatus, from Latin dis- + consolatus, past participle of consolari to console
Related to DISCONSOLATE
- Synonyms
- black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, gloomy, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
DISCONSOLATE Defined for Kids
disconsolate
adjective dis·con·so·late \dis-ˈkän-sə-lət\
Definition of DISCONSOLATE for Kids
: too sad to be cheered up <They still felt disconsolate, and Maddie wondered if she were going to be unhappy … forever. — Eleanor Estes, The Hundred Dresses>
— dis·con·so·late·ly adverb
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