DISCONSOLATE

n. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Disconsolateness. [Obs.] Barrow.

2.
a.

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.

3.
a.

Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. Ray.