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/dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt/
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/dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt/
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dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt
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dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt
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Adjective
Cheerless, dreary.
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I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.
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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.
But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?
Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
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[S]itting 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.
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.
Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
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For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.
overwhelmed with disconsolate sorrow
Noun
Disconsolateness.
Usage- Obsolete
Adjective
sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled
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inconsolable when her son died
causing dejection
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a blue day
the dark days of the war
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a week of rainy depressing weather
a disconsolate winter landscape
the first dismal dispiriting days of November
a dark gloomy day
grim rainy weather