Dictionary entry

Disconsolate (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis‐con″so‐late (?), a. [LL. disconsolatus; L. dis- + consolatus, p. p. of consolari to console. See Console, v. t.] 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.