consolable
adjective
able to be consoled.
unconsolable
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a word derived from
consolable.
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a word derived from
console.
consoleverb (used with object)to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort.
Example Sentences
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Consumers adored her sumptuous and idiosyncratic designs, and when she mysteriously called it quits, her most devoted patrons, sometimes called Philophiles, were disheartened at best and unconsolable at worst.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2019
Gay icon Boy George tweeted he was feeling "unconsolable sadness", while former NSync star Lance Bass expressed his support for his "gay brothers and sisters".
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2016
The violin fairly sobbed and groaned and wailed, as if the spirit of unconsolable grief were tugging heavily at the strings.
From How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's And Other Stories by W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) Murray
His friends, too, he bound to him by even more than the proverbial hoops of steel, so that when they passed out of life they left him unconsolable.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Those tears were trivial to the tears we’ve in shed later life, but those first tears moved me to almost unconsolable grief and the emotion caused a flow of poetry.
From Treading the Narrow Way by R. E. Barrett
