Disconsolate

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Disconsolateness. [Obs.] Barrow.

Part of speech: adjective (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. Ray.

Synonyms: Forlorn; melancholy; sorrowful; desolate; woeful; hopeless; gloomy. Dis*con"so*late*ly, adv. Dis*con"so*late*ness, n.