disconsolate — Diccionario de inglés

Adjetivo

1. Cheerless, dreary.

   Sinónimos

   bleakdrearydowncast

   Ejemplos

   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.

2. Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.

   Sinónimos

   dejectedinconsolableunconsolable

   Antónimos

   consolable

   Ejemplos

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

   overwhelmed with disconsolate sorrow

Sustantivo

1. Disconsolateness.

   Uso

   • en desuso

Adjetivo

1. sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled

   Sinónimos

   inconsolableunconsolable

   Ejemplos

   inconsolable when her son died

2. causing dejection

   Sinónimos

   bluedarkdingydismalgloomygrimsorrydrabdreardreary

   Ejemplos

   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