disconsolate

/dis'kɔnsəlit/

Thân thiện

The child looked disconsolate after losing her favorite toy.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Feeling or showing extreme sadness, grief, or hopelessness; unable to be comforted or consoled. This describes a profound state of sorrow where comfort seems impossible.
   • Causing dejection or gloom; appearing bleak, dismal, or cheerless. This describes something, like a place or atmosphere, that induces sadness.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • She was disconsolate after hearing the tragic news. (She was deeply sad and could not be comforted.)
  • The disconsolate child cried for hours after losing his favorite toy. (The child was inconsolably sad.)
  • They looked out at the disconsolate, gray landscape. (They looked at the bleak and gloomy landscape.)
  • He gave a disconsolate sigh, feeling all hope was lost. (He sighed in a way that showed deep dejection.)

Advanced Usage

• "To be disconsolate over/about something": to be extremely saddened by a specific event or situation.
  • The team was disconsolate over their last-minute defeat.
• "A disconsolate figure/wail/expression": used to describe a person's appearance or sound that conveys utter dejection.
  • A disconsolate wail came from the other room.

Variants and Related Words

• Disconsolately (adverb): in a disconsolate manner.
  • He stared disconsolately out the window.
• Disconsolation (noun): the state of being disconsolate (less common).
  • Her disconsolation was evident to everyone.

Synonyms

• Inconsolable: unable to be comforted (often interchangeable for the emotional state).
• Heartbroken: overwhelmed by grief or disappointment.
• Desolate: feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness.
• Dejected: sad and depressed; dispirited.
• Forlorn: pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.
• Dismal: causing a mood of gloom or depression (often for settings).

Antonyms

• Consoled: comforted.
• Cheerful: noticeably happy and optimistic.
• Joyful: feeling or expressing great happiness.
• Buoyant: cheerful and optimistic.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• "A disconsolate air/mood": a pervasive atmosphere of sadness.
  • A disconsolate air hung over the empty house.
• "Beyond disconsolate": an intensified state of being disconsolate (emphatic usage).
  • After the accident, he was beyond disconsolate.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. 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
2. sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled
   • inconsolable when her son died

Từ đồng nghĩa

• inconsolable
• unconsolable