disconsolate — 英語辞典

形容詞

1. Cheerless, dreary.

   同義語

   bleakdrearydowncast

   例文

   I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.

   その他の例文 (2)

   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.

   その他の例文 (3)

   [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.

   同義語

   dejectedinconsolableunconsolable

   反義語

   consolable

   例文

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

   overwhelmed with disconsolate sorrow

名詞

1. Disconsolateness.

   用法

   • 廃語

形容詞

1. sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled

   同義語

   inconsolableunconsolable

   例文

   inconsolable when her son died

2. causing dejection

   同義語

   bluedarkdingydismalgloomygrimsorrydrabdreardreary

   例文

   a blue day

   the dark days of the war

   その他の例文 (5)

   a week of rainy depressing weather

   a disconsolate winter landscape

   the first dismal dispiriting days of November

   a dark gloomy day

   grim rainy weather