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disconsolate

dis·con·so·late

UK/dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt/ US/dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt/ uncommon obsolete

adjective

1.

sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled

  • “inconsolable when her son died”
2.

causing dejection

  • “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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