disconsolate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) + cōnsōlātus (“consoled”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt/
- (US) IPA(key): /dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]disconsolate (comparative more disconsolate, superlative most disconsolate)
- Cheerless, dreary.
- Synonyms: bleak, dreary, downcast; see also Thesaurus:cheerless
- I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:
- a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts, / With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits, / Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are, / And might, if my extreames had ful euents, / Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death.
- 1624, John Donne, “13. Prayer”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 329:
- But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?
- 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter VII, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
- Sitting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.
- 1897, W.S.Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 1.
- Worst off of all were the very young children, for there had been no rain for weeks, and the street was as dry and clean as a covered court, and, in the lack of mud to wallow in, they sat about the road, disconsolate as poets.
- 2013 November 26, Daniel Taylor, “(please specify the article title)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- Özil looked a little disconsolate when he was substituted late on, though he did set up Wilshere's second with a lovely pass off the outside of his left boot.
- Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
- Synonyms: dejected, inconsolable, unconsolable; see also Thesaurus:sad
- Antonym: consolable
- For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.
- a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Pleasantness of Religion”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
- overwhelmed with disconsolate sorrow
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]cheerless, dreary
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inconsolable
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Noun
[edit]disconsolate
- (obsolete) Disconsolateness.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]discōnsōlāte
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