desconsuelo

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deskonˈswelo/
  • Rhymes: -elo
  • Syllabification: des‧con‧sue‧lo

Etymology 1

Deverbal from desconsuelo.

Noun

desconsuelo m (plural desconsuelos)

  1. grief
    Synonyms: desprecio, pesadumbre
    • 1844, Concepción Arenal, La mujer del porvenir, chapter 5:
      y se leerán sus escritos con el asombro y el desconsuelo que causa ver en los de Platón y Aristóteles la defensa de la esclavitud.
      and their writings will be read with the astonishment and grief that causes seeing the defense of slavery in those of Plato and Aristotle.
    • 1894, Benito Pérez Galdós, Torquemada en el purgatorio:
      el desconsuelo que se le ponía en la caja del pecho cada vez que aprobaba un gasto considerable
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    • Nelson Gudín Benítez, Gentes de San Apapucio, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      el desconsuelo de, en ocasiones, no saber ser quién era, el que siempre fue, por lo que había luchado ser, y convertirse en una ligera trampa de la memoria
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  2. queasiness, uneasiness

Etymology 2

Verb

desconsuelo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of desconsolar

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