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disconsolate

adj · noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt/
  • US: /dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt/
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1

adj

Meaning 1

Cheerless, dreary.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.
  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bleak, dreary, downcast, cheerless, comfortless, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gray, gloomsome, gloomy, grim, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wintry, woeful

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dejected, inconsolable, unconsolable, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, depressed, despondent, disgruntled, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heavy-hearted, heartsore, heartsick, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, Plutonian, Plutonic, querulous, ruthful, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrowful, sorrow-ridden, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

Antonyms: consolable

3

noun

Meaning 3

Disconsolateness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adjective

Meaning 4

sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • inconsolable when her son died

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: inconsolable, unconsolable

Antonyms: none provided

5

adjective satellite

Meaning 5

causing dejection

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • 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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) + cōnsōlātus (“consoled”).

Across languages

Translations

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: տխուր (txur) — cheerless, dreary
  • Armenian: վշտահար (vštahar) — cheerless, dreary
  • Armenian: թշվառ (tʻšvaṙ) — cheerless, dreary
  • Bulgarian: тъжен (tǎžen) — cheerless, dreary
  • Bulgarian: печален (pečalen) — cheerless, dreary
  • Czech: sklíčený — cheerless, dreary
  • Czech: zdrcený — cheerless, dreary
  • Czech: zoufalý — cheerless, dreary
  • Dutch: troosteloos — cheerless, dreary
  • Dutch: mistroostig — cheerless, dreary
  • German: trostlos — cheerless, dreary
  • Greek: απελπισμένος (apelpisménos) — cheerless, dreary
  • Hungarian: szomorú — cheerless, dreary
  • Hungarian: bús — cheerless, dreary
  • Hungarian: vigasztalan — cheerless, dreary
  • Māori: kaimōhū — cheerless, dreary
  • Portuguese: melancólico — cheerless, dreary
  • Russian: печа́льный (pečálʹnyj) — cheerless, dreary
  • Sanskrit: खिन्न (khinna) — cheerless, dreary
  • Serbo-Croatian: potuljen — cheerless, dreary
  • Spanish: desconsolado — cheerless, dreary
  • Armenian: անմխիթար (anmxitʻar) — inconsolable
  • Armenian: անսփոփ (anspʻopʻ) — inconsolable
  • Armenian: անամոք (anamokʻ) — inconsolable
  • Bulgarian: неутешим (neutešim) — inconsolable
  • Czech: neutěšitelný — inconsolable
  • Dutch: ontroostbaar — inconsolable
  • French: inconsolable — inconsolable
  • German: untröstlich — inconsolable
  • Greek: απαρηγόρητος (aparigóritos) — inconsolable
  • Hungarian: vigasztalan — inconsolable
  • Hungarian: vigasztalhatatlan — inconsolable
  • Māori: kaimōhū — inconsolable
  • Māori: pūkatokato — inconsolable
  • Māori: ohai — inconsolable
  • Māori: rohai — inconsolable
  • Portuguese: desconsolado — inconsolable
  • Portuguese: desamparado — inconsolable
  • Russian: безуте́шный (bezutéšnyj) — inconsolable
  • Serbo-Croatian: neutješan — inconsolable
  • Spanish: desconsolado — inconsolable
  • Swedish: otröstlig — inconsolable
  • Ukrainian: безуті́шний (bezutíšnyj) — inconsolable
  • Ukrainian: невті́шний (nevtíšnyj) — inconsolable