disconsolate

Cheerless, dreary.

Adjective

Cheerless, dreary.
- 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? - 1624, John Donne, “13. Prayer”, in...
Synonyms: bleak dreary downcast cheerless comfortless dark morose depressing desolate dire disconsolate dismal doleful dolesome drear drearisome dreich forlorn gayless gray gloomsome gloomy grim joyless
Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
- For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.
- overwhelmed with disconsolate sorrow - a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London:...
Synonyms: dejected inconsolable unconsolable atrabiliary atrabilious blitheless dispirited blue bummed out chapfallen cheerless chopfallen crestfallen cut up damp depressed despondent disgruntled disconsolate disheartened dismal doleful dolesome down

Antonyms: consolable

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