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Definition of disconsolate in English: disconsolateadjective dɪsˈkɒns(ə)lətˌdɪsˈkɑns(ə)lət Very unhappy and unable to be comforted. 不开心的;郁郁寡欢的 she left Fritz looking disconsolate 她离开弗里茨,一副闷闷不乐的样子。 Example sentencesExamples - No one, though, seemed too disconsolate at the prospect of a replay.
- One skater who helps run one of many clubs for children said hundreds of youngsters would be disconsolate.
- A disconsolate player admitted: ‘We blew it with those two penalty misses.’
- My horse trudges bored and disconsolate around the whole property, seeking even a single blade of green grass.
- So off I sloped, rather disconsolate, leaving my second attempt at a French loaf to sulk on the counter, all sunken and miserable-looking.
- If you finish fourth and you don't race well, then you can be frustrated and disconsolate.
- Daniel is red-eyed from weeping, while John stares unseeingly out of a hotel window, disconsolate.
- Spectators aren't going to go home disconsolate if their team loses, as they do in Australia.
- Fifteen minutes after they trooped out of their dressing-room, disconsolate, shocked by what had unfolded, the footballers were still trying to come to terms with the reality of their situation.
- I felt a bit too embarrassed for that, said the disconsolate defender.
- I can't say I was too much bothered, though Dolly and Harry were disconsolate.
- I have never seen a more disconsolate and desolate group than the Party after that speech.
- I get whiny, and disconsolate, and I'm generally so absorbed in personal misery at the disaster I anticipate that I can't really think of very much else.
- He was staring out of the window, disconsolate that he had to urge me to censor my work.
- The painter creates bleak snowscapes peopled by groups of disconsolate figures, dispersing and recombining.
- Quite a few disconsolate men complained that the ballot should have been secret, but they did so while lacerated by basilisk stares from the suspicious harridans they had brought with them.
- By then the protesters appeared to have lost heart and left the lecture hall looking disconsolate as the audience gave the speaker a round of applause.
- But they are far from disconsolate, because they have confirmed that the defensive ditch of the medieval Castle is still in good condition and where they expected it to be.
- ‘They never turned up’ was one of the most common post-match complaints from disconsolate supporters.
- ‘They don't make a living out of getting things wrong,’ one disconsolate MP said last night.
Synonyms sad, unhappy, doleful, woebegone, dejected, downcast, downhearted, despondent, dispirited, crestfallen, cast down, depressed, fed up, disappointed, disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, crushed, desolate, heartbroken, broken-hearted, inconsolable, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, forlorn, in the doldrums, melancholy, miserable, long-faced, wretched, glum, gloomy, dismal informal blue, choked, down, down in the mouth, down in the dumps British informal brassed off, cheesed off, as sick as a parrot, looking as if one had lost a pound and found a penny literary dolorous archaic chap-fallen, heartsick, heartsore
Derivativesadverb dɪsˈkɒnsələtli A small boy sits disconsolately on a park bench, finishing up what looks like a packed lunch; we feel instinctively worried, protective - where are his parents? Example sentencesExamples - As the afternoon wears on, malaise sets in; I'm tired of music, tired of reading, tired of telly, and start flicking disconsolately through the channels.
- ‘I've been going to various media organisations, but not many are impressed,’ says he disconsolately.
- A group of young men from the city's environmental protection department stood around disconsolately, debating whether to go and have a drink instead.
- The distraught mother of the slain young man said disconsolately at his funeral, ‘I don't know who to blame for my son's death.
noun For them, another weekday without work would only increase the emptiness and disconsolateness caused by idling away spare time. Example sentencesExamples - The landscape was however beautiful in spite of its disconsolateness.
- His look bespoke the unquietness of his mind, and frequently wandered with an expression of disconsolateness and anxiety.
- The rain still descended; the gutters were overflowing, and the early passers-by drooped in wet disconsolateness.
- I turned to Jonas, noting the disconsolateness that flawed his gorgeous amber-colored eyes.
noun dɪskɒns(ə)ˈleɪʃ(ə)n His disconsolation was written all over his body language - as soon as he had crossed the finishing line his head went down and was soon in his hands. Example sentencesExamples - From this point of view, should we not look at these paintings as a constructive criticism of today's unpleasant cities, the disconsolation of concrete walls and the transformation of values into goods?
- A remarkable pair of pencil drawings on newsprint reflect the overwhelming disconsolation of one such period.
- The Cat seemed somewhat puzzled by this comment, and his stride became less confident, while his tail wagged in apparent disconsolation.
- Its sudden withdrawal from the people would bring deeper disconsolation than to deprive them of television.
OriginLate Middle English: from medieval Latin disconsolatus, from dis- (expressing reversal) + Latin consolatus (past participle of consolari 'to console'). Definition of disconsolate in US English: disconsolateadjectiveˌdɪsˈkɑns(ə)lətˌdisˈkäns(ə)lət 1Without consolation or comfort; unhappy. he'd met the man's disconsolate widow Example sentencesExamples - Fifteen minutes after they trooped out of their dressing-room, disconsolate, shocked by what had unfolded, the footballers were still trying to come to terms with the reality of their situation.
- But they are far from disconsolate, because they have confirmed that the defensive ditch of the medieval Castle is still in good condition and where they expected it to be.
- So off I sloped, rather disconsolate, leaving my second attempt at a French loaf to sulk on the counter, all sunken and miserable-looking.
- I felt a bit too embarrassed for that, said the disconsolate defender.
- ‘They don't make a living out of getting things wrong,’ one disconsolate MP said last night.
- Quite a few disconsolate men complained that the ballot should have been secret, but they did so while lacerated by basilisk stares from the suspicious harridans they had brought with them.
- A disconsolate player admitted: ‘We blew it with those two penalty misses.’
- I get whiny, and disconsolate, and I'm generally so absorbed in personal misery at the disaster I anticipate that I can't really think of very much else.
- The painter creates bleak snowscapes peopled by groups of disconsolate figures, dispersing and recombining.
- If you finish fourth and you don't race well, then you can be frustrated and disconsolate.
- One skater who helps run one of many clubs for children said hundreds of youngsters would be disconsolate.
- No one, though, seemed too disconsolate at the prospect of a replay.
- ‘They never turned up’ was one of the most common post-match complaints from disconsolate supporters.
- I have never seen a more disconsolate and desolate group than the Party after that speech.
- By then the protesters appeared to have lost heart and left the lecture hall looking disconsolate as the audience gave the speaker a round of applause.
- He was staring out of the window, disconsolate that he had to urge me to censor my work.
- My horse trudges bored and disconsolate around the whole property, seeking even a single blade of green grass.
- Daniel is red-eyed from weeping, while John stares unseeingly out of a hotel window, disconsolate.
- Spectators aren't going to go home disconsolate if their team loses, as they do in Australia.
- I can't say I was too much bothered, though Dolly and Harry were disconsolate.
Synonyms sad, unhappy, doleful, woebegone, dejected, downcast, downhearted, despondent, dispirited, crestfallen, cast down, depressed, fed up, disappointed, disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, crushed, desolate, heartbroken, broken-hearted, inconsolable, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, forlorn, in the doldrums, melancholy, miserable, long-faced, wretched, glum, gloomy, dismal - 1.1 (of a place or thing) causing or showing a complete lack of comfort; cheerless.
solitary, disconsolate clumps of cattails Example sentencesExamples - It wasn't like people were silent, morosely sipping beer and casting disconsolate glances up to track the progress.
- It is a disconsolate landscape indeed.
- So this afternoon will see me making another disconsolate tour of the range, in the vain hope of finding a pair of shoes that is both elegant and comfortable.
- Yet Birmingham's interiors, like her landscapes, tend more often toward the moody and disconsolate, as if each were telling the story of a broken childhood and a later broken heart.
- Now the international spotlight has left that disconsolate country, it is left with an uncertain and hopelessly complex future.
- To end on a disconsolate note is not pessimistic, nor is it dark and brooding; it is reality, hitting us in the face, over and over.
- The entire show lacks the disconsolate desolation of Fitzgerald's own great novels and offers flappers and tap dancing in its place.
- The winner's arms raised in triumph, the loser sprawled in disconsolate resignation.
- And the name seemed poignantly appropriate for the often disconsolate City.
- From disconsolate hair-combing to the silent succumbing to lust it is a memorable performance.
- I shall not mention your disconsolate country, for it is of no avail to reopen a wound that still aches.
- Nevertheless, in this disconsolate landscape there slumbers a desire for solace, intimacy and meaning.
- This should be disconsolate in nature, and whining in tone.
OriginLate Middle English: from medieval Latin disconsolatus, from dis- (expressing reversal) + Latin consolatus (past participle of consolari ‘to console’). |