unconsoled
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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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“Try a Little Tenderness,” the Otis Redding classic, figures prominently in a play in which acceptable expressions of love between men is punishingly limited, leaving an ache that can grow dangerous when unconsoled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024
I wanted the truth, even if it left me feeling unconsoled and morally bereft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2021
Ottavio considers her delay “cruel,” and she sings another great tragic aria explaining that she loves him but is still unconsoled: “Maybe someday, heaven will take pity on me.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 17, 2015
As with these two illustrious predecessors there is a strange beauty – sad, lyrical , unconsoled – in this latest virtual instalment of the American photographic safari-odyssey.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2012
What, then, was left him but to perish here, alone, uncared for, unconsoled by a word of love from any human being?
From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge