Hypertext Webster Gateway: "disconsolate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Disconsolate \Dis*con"so*late\, n.
Disconsolateness. [Obs.] --Barrow.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Disconsolate \Dis*con"so*late\, a. [LL. disconsolatus; L. dis- +
consolatus, p. p. of consolari to console. See {Console}, v.
t.]
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. --Moore.
The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were
dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. --Dryden.
2. Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the
disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. --Ray.
Syn: Forlorn; melancholy; sorrowful; desolate; woeful;
hopeless; gloomy. -- {Dis*con"so*late*ly}, adv. --
{Dis*con"so*late*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
disconsolate
adj 1: sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled;
"inconsolable when her son died" [syn: {inconsolable},
{unconsolable}] [ant: {consolable}]
2: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war";
"a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate
winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of
November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn:
{blue}, {dark}, {depressing}, {dismal}, {dispiriting}, {gloomy},
{grim}]
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