disconsolate

dis·con·so·late

adj \dis-ˈkän(t)-sə-lət\

Definition of DISCONSOLATE

1

: cheerless <a clutch of disconsolate houses — D. H. Lawrence>

2

: dejected, downcast <the team returned disconsolate from three losses>

— dis·con·so·late·ly adverb

— dis·con·so·late·ness noun

— dis·con·so·la·tion \(ˌ)dis-ˌkän(t)-sə-ˈlā-shən\ noun

Examples of DISCONSOLATE

1. Campaign workers grew increasingly disconsolate as the results came in.
2. <spent her last years in the disconsolate environs of a cheap boarding house>

Origin of DISCONSOLATE

Middle English, from Medieval Latin disconsolatus, from Latin dis- + consolatus, past participle of consolari to console

First Known Use: 14th century

Related to DISCONSOLATE

Synonyms: black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, gloomy, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched

Antonyms: bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, cordial, festive, friendly, gay, heartwarming, sunshiny

Related Words: blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, gloomy, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woeful; dim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsetting; desperate, hopeless, pessimistic; lamentable, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful; colorless, drab, dull; dour, grim, lowering (also louring), lowery (also loury), menacing, negative, oppressive, threatening

Near Antonyms: blithe, blithesome, buoyant, gay, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, mirthful; encouraging, hopeful, optimistic; lighthearted, lightsome

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