disconsolate

Definition

Cheerless, dreary.

Etymology

From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) + cōnsōlātus (“consoled”).

Example Sentences

• "I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day."
• "a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts, / With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits, / Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are, / And might, if my extreames had ful euents, / Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death."
• "But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?"