disconsolate
dis·con·so·late
adjective
1.
sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled
- “inconsolable when her son died”
2.
- “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”
Origin
From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) + cōnsōlātus (“consoled”).
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