disconsolate

adjective

No English definition recorded for this entry.

Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt/ / /dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt/

Etymology: From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) + cōnsōlātus (“consoled”).

Cheerless, dreary.
“I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.”
“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.”
Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
“For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.”
“overwhelmed with disconsolate sorrow”

Etymology: From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) + cōnsōlātus (“consoled”).