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- Dictionarydisconsolate/dɪˈskɒnsələt/
adjective
- 1. very unhappy and unable to be comforted: "she left Fritz looking disconsolate"
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The meaning of DISCONSOLATE is cheerless. How to use disconsolate in a sentence.
extremely sad and disappointed: The players were disconsolate after losing what should have been an easy game. Synonym. inconsolable. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Feeling sad and unhappy. a long face idiom. abjection. angsty. be cut up idiom. be down in the mouth idiom. be in a funk idiom. displeased. dissatisfied. distraught.
Disconsolate definition: without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable. See examples of DISCONSOLATE used in a sentence.
extremely sad and disappointed: The players were disconsolate after losing what should have been an easy game. Synonym. inconsolable. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Feeling sad and unhappy. a long face idiom. abjection. angsty. be cut up idiom. be down in the mouth idiom. be in a funk idiom. displeased. dissatisfied. distraught.
1. so unhappy that nothing will comfort; inconsolable; dejected. 2. causing or suggesting dejection; cheerless.
causing dejection. “a disconsolate winter landscape”. synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry. cheerless, depressing, uncheerful. causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy.
There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the word disconsolate. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
adj. 1. Seeming beyond consolation; extremely dejected: disconsolate at the loss of the dog. See Synonyms at depressed. 2. Cheerless; gloomy: a disconsolate winter landscape. [Middle English, from Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus : Latin dis-, dis- + cōnsōlātus, past participle of cōnsōlārī, to console; see console1 .] dis·con′so·late·ly adv.
Definition of disconsolate adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Causing or suggesting dejection; cheerless. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Synonyms: unconsolable. inconsolable. dreary. gloomy. dismal. dark. drab. sorry. grim. dingy. blue. drear. miserable. down. depressed. Antonyms: cheerful. solaced. soothed.