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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Disconsolate \Dis*con"so*late\, n. Disconsolateness. [Obs.] --Barrow. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Disconsolate \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: disconsolate adj 1: sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died" [syn: {inconsolable}, {unconsolable}] [ant: {consolable}] 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" [syn: {blue}, {dark}, {depressing}, {dismal}, {dispiriting}, {gloomy}, {grim}]
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