disconsolate

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  1. adjective Seeming beyond consolation; extremely dejected: disconsolate at the loss of the dog.
  2. adjective Cheerless; gloomy: a disconsolate winter landscape.

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  • The academician lowered himself to the ground and sat, disconsolate, his head bowed. —  FSF - May2006
  • I continued long disconsolate, and would receive no comfort; something inwardly reproved me, for not having embraced that opportunity of going to Heaven, when it rested altogether on my own choice. —  AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MADAME GUYON
  • At one moment he would be woebegone and disconsolate, and the next he would be visited with a violent flow of spirits, to which he could only give vent by incessant laughing, whistling, and telling stories. —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
  • That is, if she really considers that she has one I knew I'd find you here," called a disconsolate voice, and Emma Dean appeared from behind a huge flowering bush. —  Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College
  • That of the Sceptic will be disturbed or disconsolate--that of the Christian confiding or blessed. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus : Latin dis-, dis- + cōnsōlātus, past participle of cōnsōlārī, to console; see console1.

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  1. from Middle English disconsolat = Old French desconsole, F. déconsolé = Spanish Portuguese desconsolado = Italian disconsolato, sconsolato, from Middle Latin disconsolatus, comfortless, from Latin dis- privative + consolatus, past participle of consolari, console: see console.
 

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