disconsolate
adjective
without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable.
disconsolateness
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a word derived from
disconsolate.
Example Sentences
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"He's there upstairs in the drawing-room, the very picture of disconsolateness."
From The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
She heard Miss Madigan's gasp of horror, and could imagine the fishy disconsolateness of her expression.
From The Madigans by Orson Lowell
I know there will come feelings of disconsolateness over you occasionally, from being so out of the academic swim.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
As for me, instead of desolating, the harsh disconsolateness of the scene seemed to uplift me; I savoured it with joy, as one savours the melancholy of a tragic work of art.
From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett
You may fancy what disconsolateness this condition--only to be called a consciousness floating in vacant space, with nothing to hold on to--brought to me.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
