disconsolate

From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) +‎ cōnsōlātus (“consoled”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt/

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disconsolate (comparative more disconsolate, superlative most disconsolate)

1. Cheerless, dreary.

   Synonyms: bleak, dreary, downcast; see also Thesaurus:cheerless

   I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.

   • c. 1587–1588, , Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:

     a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts, / With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits, / Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are, / And might, if my extreames had ful euents, / Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death.

   • 1624, John Donne, “13. Prayer”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: , London: A M for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 329:

     But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee , and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?

   • 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):

     Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean
     Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.

   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter VII, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

     Sitting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.

   • 1897, W.S.Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 1.

     Worst off of all were the very young children, for there had been no rain for weeks, and the street was as dry and clean as a covered court, and, in the lack of mud to wallow in, they sat about the road, disconsolate as poets.

   • 2013 November 26, Daniel Taylor, “(please specify the article title)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Özil looked a little disconsolate when he was substituted late on, though he did set up Wilshere's second with a lovely pass off the outside of his left boot.

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2. Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.

   Synonyms: dejected, inconsolable, unconsolable; see also Thesaurus:sad

   Antonym: consolable

   For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.

   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Pleasantness of Religion”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. , volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A J Valpy, , published 1830–1831, →OCLC:

     overwhelmed with disconsolate sorrow

• disconsolately
• disconsolation
• disconsolateness

disconsolate

1. (obsolete) Disconsolateness.

• consolidates

discōnsōlāte

1. vocative masculine singular of discōnsōlātus