disconsolate
adjective
without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable.
disconsolation
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a word derived from
disconsolate.
Example Sentences
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In London the Council of Foreign Ministers achieved only the disconsolation of all in the world who desired peace, not power.
From Time Magazine Archive
The question is to seek consolation in disconsolation.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
He was a thin, youngish kind of man, I should say past fifty, sort of French-Irish in his affections, and puffed up with disconsolation.
From Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry
The theme occasioned as much enthusiasm as could be expected from hearts saddened by disconsolation.
From The Siege of Kimberley by T. Phelan
We reposed that night among the camp equipment, the sick man caring for naught in his physical collapse and disconsolation.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
