dis·con·so·late /dɪsˈkɑn(t)sələt/
(a.)郁郁不樂的
Dis·con·so·late n. Disconsolateness. [Obs.]
Dis·con·so·late a.
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.
Syn: -- Forlorn; melancholy; sorrowful; desolate; woeful; hopeless; gloomy.
-- Dis*con*so*late*ly, adv. -- Dis*con*so*late*ness, n.
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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]