disconsolate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled
    unconsolable; inconsolable.
    • inconsolable when her son died
  2. adjective satellite causing dejection
    blue; dingy; drear; dreary; dark; gloomy; dismal; drab; sorry; grim.
    • a blue day
    • the dark days of the war
    • a week of rainy depressing weather
    • a disconsolate winter landscape
    • the first dismal dispiriting days of November
    • a dark gloomy day
    • grim rainy weather

WordNet

Dis*con"so*late noun
Definitions
  1. Disconsolateness. Obs. Barrow.
Dis*con"so*late adjective
Etymology
LL. disconsolatus; L. dis- + consolatus, p. p. of consolari to console. See Console, v. t.
Definitions
  1. Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent.
    One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate. Moore.
    The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. Dryden.
  2. Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. Ray. Syn. -- Forlorn; melancholy; sorrowful; desolate; woeful; hopeless; gloomy. -- Dis*con"so*late*ly, adv. -- Dis*con"so*late*ness, n.

Webster 1913