disconsolateadj.n.

Brit.

/dɪˈskɒnsələt/,

/dɪˈskɒnsl̩ət/, U.S.

/dɪˈskɑns(ə)lət/

Forms: late Middle English desconsolate, late Middle English disconsolaat, late Middle English dysconsolaat, late Middle English dysconsolat, late Middle English–1500s dysconsolate, late Middle English–1600s disconsolat, late Middle English– disconsolate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin disconsolatus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin disconsolatus comfortless (11th cent.) < classical Latin dis- dis- prefix + consōlātus consolate adj. Compare Old Occitan desconsolat , Middle French desconsolé (16th cent.), Spanish desconsolado (first half of the 13th cent.), Portuguese desconsolado (14th cent.), and also (with the etymologically distinct prefix s- : see ex- prefix¹) Italian sconsolato (a1294).With the use as noun compare Spanish desconsolado, noun (c1370).

A. adj.

1. Causing despondency; dispiriting, disheartening; cheerless, gloomy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing

darkOE

unmerryOE

deathlyc1225

dolefulc1275

elengec1275

dreicha1300

coolc1350

cloudyc1374

sada1375

colda1400

deadlya1400

joylessc1400

unjoyful?c1400

disconsolatea1413

mournfula1425

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dolesome1533

heavy-hearted1555

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plaintive?1570

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funebral1581

discouraging1584

dernful?1591

murk1596

recomfortless1596

sullen1597

amating1600

lugubrious1601

dusky1602

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damping1607

mortifying1611

tearful?1611

uncouth1611

dulsome1613

luctual1613

dismal1617

winterous1617

unked1620

mopish1621

godforsaken?1623

uncheerly1627

funebrious1630

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drearisome1633

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feral1641

drear1645

darksome1649

sadding1649

saddening1650

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funebrous1654

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dreary1667

tenebrose1677

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unconsolatory1760

unjolly1764

Decemberly1765

sombre1768

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Novemberish1840

frigid1844

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wet-blanketty1848

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ungladdeneda1851

adusk1856

smileless1858

soul-sick1858

Novemberya1864

saturnine1863

down1873

lacklustre1883

Heaven-abandoneda1907

downbeat1952

doomy1967

a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 542 O. paleys desolat... O. paleys empty and disconsolat.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 7412 Þis litel regioun..like is to stonde dissolat Of gouernaunce, and disconsolat.

1616 T. Adams Three Divine Sisters 7 in Sacrifice of Thankefulnesse The woman..would needs dye languishing in the disconsolate fields.

1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 34 When the Christians affairs are most disconsolate, he may soon meet with a happy change.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 48 The disconsolate darkness of our Winter Nights.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 165 It was..a desolate, disconsolate Wilderness.

1797 R. Burn & J. Burn Justice of Peace (ed. 18) II. 490 Confinement itself in such dismal abodes is sufficiently afflictive and disconsolate.

1826 J. Alley Vindiciæ Christianæ x. 18 The whole region appears disconsolate and dreary.

1860 A. C. Swinburne Rosamond v. 215 Dead flesh is grey..what was red A new disconsolate colour overpaints.

1901 C. Rose-Innes With Paget's Horse 129 The last time I saw his mansion it was a disconsolate wreck.

1972 A. Sanford Sealed Orders vii. 105 The kitchen was floored with a disconsolate brown linoleum that showed every spot.

2000 S. T. Murray tr. H. Mankell Fifth Woman xxii. 224 October was the most disconsolate month. Everything turned to gray.

2. Of a person: lacking consolation or comfort; forlorn, inconsolable; unhappy, despondent; (in Middle English also) †despairing of (obsolete). Also (of behaviour, a mental state, etc.): expressing or characterized by unhappiness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [adjective]

armlyeOE

un-i-selieOE

unledeeOE

unseelyOE

armOE

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unselea1200

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loddera1400

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disconsolatea1425

meschant?1473

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miserablea1616

thrallfula1618

calamitous1668

tribulated1682

donsie?1719

unsolaced1796

mis1939

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 3168 I all[e] soole disconsolate [Fr. esbahis] Was left aloone in peyne and thought.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 3742 Þei of Troye, Disconsolat of al her olde Ioye, Can no refut, but wepe and sorwe make.

a1456 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 629 Ruwe on þe poore and folk desconsolate.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxl*. f. lxxiiii^v Thou mother to wretchis & other disconsolate.

1634 T. Hawkins tr. Saxon Hist. 9 Clodoaldus..perceiving hee was gone, entred into the furies of disconsolate sorrow.

1663 S. Pepys Diary 19 Oct. (1971) IV. 339 The King..is most fondly disconsolate for her and weeps by her.

a1704 T. Brown Dialogue Oxf. Schollars in Wks. (1707) I. i. 8 A poor disconsolate Widow.

1744 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 8/1 His former Companions, now ruthlessly condemned to disconsolate Sobriety.

1811 Christian Observer June 367/2 I saw a poor woman sitting by herself on a bench by the wall, apparently in a disconsolate state of mind.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 37 On the nigh-naked tree the Robin piped Disconsolate.

1931 E. S. Whitman No Minor Vices xiii. 198 On the porch..sat the disconsolate woman,..her face puffed and sullen from much crying.

1975 L. T. Topsfield Troubadours & Love (1978) 66 This happiness will displace the actual mood of disconsolate and unfulfilled longing with which he begins and ends the poem.

2007 Daily Mail 18 Oct. 88/2 (caption) Rooney is left disconsolate after Russia's double salvo wrecked England's qualification bid.

B. n.

1. With plural agreement. With the. Disconsolate people as a class.

ΚΠ

1596 T. Lodge Prosopopeia sig. H5^v Thou the hope of the disconsolate, art crucified.

1613 J. Boys Expos. Festivall Epist. & Gospels 420 Here then is comfort for the disconsolate.

1672 W. Wycherley Love in Wood ii. i. 28 I thought, that time had only stolen from happy Lovers; the Disconsolate have nothing to do but to tell the Clock.

1712 H. Curzon Universal Libr. II. 121 These..by their Musick, are said to have..appeased the Disconsolate and Desperate.

1798 Evangelical Mag. Sept. 374 (title) A word to the disconsolate.

1844 S. Ellis Daughters of Eng. xii. 120/2 Treating religion with respect, as a good thing for the poor and the disconsolate.

1867 Deb. & Proc. Constit. Convent. Mich. I. 399/1 Like angels of mercy,..speaking words of comfort to the disconsolate.

1905 Insurance Press 5 July 5/1 We think it is about time to end the wake and to adjourn the meeting of the disconsolate.

1964 H. H. Peckham Colonial Wars ii. 44 Madeleine inspired the disconsolate and weary by her example of resolute courage.

2002 K. Ashenburg Mourner's Dance (2009) ix. 234 Once more, the disconsolate were the masters of consolation.

2. A disconsolate person.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > dejected or gloomy person

unhappy hooka1529

drooper1577

disconsolate1631

desponder1689

mope1693

moper1721

despondent1812

misery1888

crape-hanger1921

Dismal Desmond1926

Dismal Jimmy1927

crêpe-hanger1930

Eeyore1932

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd vi. 79 O disconsolate that I am! my misfortunes still pursue me.

1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions v. 151 The Rooms hung with Black, And in one of them lay the poor Disconsolate, upon a Couch with her Condoling Friends about her.

1749 S. Fielding Governess 64 Fidus..beheld in the midst of the Multitude, standing in a pensive Posture, the fair Disconsolate.

1780 S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett III. civ. 16 Raymond, our poor disconsolate—the mutual joy of our hearts.

1849 H. Melville Jrnl. 7 Nov. (1989) 14 Two disconsolates on board the ship.

1873 Boston Daily Advertiser 2 Aug. 1/9 A hundred or more disconsolates who had lost money on the second race.

1902 Rep. Iowa State Hort. Soc. 36 511 Realizing very keenly how much misery loves the company of the more miserable we will..invite any and all of your disconsolates to come up our way.

1987 P. Wolfe Corridors of Deceit ii. 38 These two disconsolates share at least one disturbing feature; they show that the spy whose hopes get crushed in the field can be an outsider.

2006 M. O'Donnell Doctor Donovan's Bequest 184 Only a handful of disconsolates idled along the front or lent on the railings gazing out to sea.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	disconsolate
释义	disconsolateadj.n. Brit. /dɪˈskɒnsələt/, /dɪˈskɒnsl̩ət/, U.S. /dɪˈskɑns(ə)lət/ Forms: late Middle English desconsolate, late Middle English disconsolaat, late Middle English dysconsolaat, late Middle English dysconsolat, late Middle English–1500s dysconsolate, late Middle English–1600s disconsolat, late Middle English– disconsolate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin disconsolatus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin disconsolatus comfortless (11th cent.) < classical Latin dis- dis- prefix + consōlātus consolate adj. Compare Old Occitan desconsolat , Middle French desconsolé (16th cent.), Spanish desconsolado (first half of the 13th cent.), Portuguese desconsolado (14th cent.), and also (with the etymologically distinct prefix s- : see ex- prefix¹) Italian sconsolato (a1294).With the use as noun compare Spanish desconsolado, noun (c1370). A. adj. 1. Causing despondency; dispiriting, disheartening; cheerless, gloomy. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > gloomy or depressing darkOE unmerryOE deathlyc1225 dolefulc1275 elengec1275 dreicha1300 coolc1350 cloudyc1374 sada1375 colda1400 deadlya1400 joylessc1400 unjoyful?c1400 disconsolatea1413 mournfula1425 funeralc1425 uncheerfulc1449 dolent1489 dolesome1533 heavy-hearted1555 glum1558 ungladsome1558 black1562 pleasureless1567 dern1570 plaintive?1570 glummish1573 cheerless1575 comfortless1576 wintry1579 glummy1580 funebral1581 discouraging1584 dernful?1591 murk1596 recomfortless1596 sullen1597 amating1600 lugubrious1601 dusky1602 sable1603 funebrial1604 damping1607 mortifying1611 tearful?1611 uncouth1611 dulsome1613 luctual1613 dismal1617 winterous1617 unked1620 mopish1621 godforsaken?1623 uncheerly1627 funebrious1630 lugubrous1632 drearisome1633 unheartsome1637 feral1641 drear1645 darksome1649 sadding1649 saddening1650 disheartening1654 funebrous1654 luctiferous1656 mestifical1656 tristifical1656 sooty1657 dreary1667 tenebrose1677 clouded1682 tragicala1700 funereal1707 gloomy1710 sepulchrala1711 dumpishc1717 bleaka1719 depressive1727 lugubre1727 muzzy1728 dispiriting1733 uncheery1760 unconsolatory1760 unjolly1764 Decemberly1765 sombre1768 uncouthie1768 depressing1772 unmirthful1782 sombrous1789 disanimating1791 Decemberish1793 grey1794 uncheering1796 ungenial1796 uncomforting1798 disencouraginga1806 stern1812 chilling1815 uncheered1817 dejecting1818 mopey1821 desponding1828 wisht1829 leadening1835 unsportful1837 demoralizing1840 Novemberish1840 frigid1844 morne1844 tragic1848 wet-blanketty1848 morgue1850 ungladdeneda1851 adusk1856 smileless1858 soul-sick1858 Novemberya1864 saturnine1863 down1873 lacklustre1883 Heaven-abandoneda1907 downbeat1952 doomy1967 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 542 O. paleys desolat... O. paleys empty and disconsolat. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 7412 Þis litel regioun..like is to stonde dissolat Of gouernaunce, and disconsolat. 1616 T. Adams Three Divine Sisters 7 in Sacrifice of Thankefulnesse The woman..would needs dye languishing in the disconsolate fields. 1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 34 When the Christians affairs are most disconsolate, he may soon meet with a happy change. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 48 The disconsolate darkness of our Winter Nights. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 165 It was..a desolate, disconsolate Wilderness. 1797 R. Burn & J. Burn Justice of Peace (ed. 18) II. 490 Confinement itself in such dismal abodes is sufficiently afflictive and disconsolate. 1826 J. Alley Vindiciæ Christianæ x. 18 The whole region appears disconsolate and dreary. 1860 A. C. Swinburne Rosamond v. 215 Dead flesh is grey..what was red A new disconsolate colour overpaints. 1901 C. Rose-Innes With Paget's Horse 129 The last time I saw his mansion it was a disconsolate wreck. 1972 A. Sanford Sealed Orders vii. 105 The kitchen was floored with a disconsolate brown linoleum that showed every spot. 2000 S. T. Murray tr. H. Mankell Fifth Woman xxii. 224 October was the most disconsolate month. Everything turned to gray. 2. Of a person: lacking consolation or comfort; forlorn, inconsolable; unhappy, despondent; (in Middle English also) †despairing of (obsolete). Also (of behaviour, a mental state, etc.): expressing or characterized by unhappiness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [adjective] armlyeOE un-i-selieOE unledeeOE unseelyOE armOE wretcha1122 unselea1200 wretcheda1200 wretchlyc1200 misease?c1225 wanlichec1275 miseasyc1300 wansomea1325 simplec1330 wretchfula1382 wretchedful1382 caitiff1393 loddera1400 desolate14.. disconsolatea1425 meschant?1473 miserousc1475 miser1542 unvisited1548 tribulate1575 happiless1582 uncomforted1583 blisslessa1586 uncomfortless1598 miserablea1616 thrallfula1618 calamitous1668 tribulated1682 donsie?1719 unsolaced1796 mis1939 a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 3168 I all[e] soole disconsolate [Fr. esbahis] Was left aloone in peyne and thought. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 3742 Þei of Troye, Disconsolat of al her olde Ioye, Can no refut, but wepe and sorwe make. a1456 ( J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 629 Ruwe on þe poore and folk desconsolate. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxl. f. lxxiiii^v Thou mother to wretchis & other disconsolate. 1634 T. Hawkins tr. Saxon Hist.* 9 Clodoaldus..perceiving hee was gone, entred into the furies of disconsolate sorrow. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 19 Oct. (1971) IV. 339 The King..is most fondly disconsolate for her and weeps by her. a1704 T. Brown Dialogue Oxf. Schollars in Wks. (1707) I. i. 8 A poor disconsolate Widow. 1744 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 8/1 His former Companions, now ruthlessly condemned to disconsolate Sobriety. 1811 Christian Observer June 367/2 I saw a poor woman sitting by herself on a bench by the wall, apparently in a disconsolate state of mind. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 37 On the nigh-naked tree the Robin piped Disconsolate. 1931 E. S. Whitman No Minor Vices xiii. 198 On the porch..sat the disconsolate woman,..her face puffed and sullen from much crying. 1975 L. T. Topsfield Troubadours & Love (1978) 66 This happiness will displace the actual mood of disconsolate and unfulfilled longing with which he begins and ends the poem. 2007 Daily Mail 18 Oct. 88/2 (caption) Rooney is left disconsolate after Russia's double salvo wrecked England's qualification bid. B. n. 1. With plural agreement. With the. Disconsolate people as a class. ΚΠ 1596 T. Lodge Prosopopeia sig. H5^v Thou the hope of the disconsolate, art crucified. 1613 J. Boys Expos. Festivall Epist. & Gospels 420 Here then is comfort for the disconsolate. 1672 W. Wycherley Love in Wood ii. i. 28 I thought, that time had only stolen from happy Lovers; the Disconsolate have nothing to do but to tell the Clock. 1712 H. Curzon Universal Libr. II. 121 These..by their Musick, are said to have..appeased the Disconsolate and Desperate. 1798 Evangelical Mag. Sept. 374 (title) A word to the disconsolate. 1844 S. Ellis Daughters of Eng. xii. 120/2 Treating religion with respect, as a good thing for the poor and the disconsolate. 1867 Deb. & Proc. Constit. Convent. Mich. I. 399/1 Like angels of mercy,..speaking words of comfort to the disconsolate. 1905 Insurance Press 5 July 5/1 We think it is about time to end the wake and to adjourn the meeting of the disconsolate. 1964 H. H. Peckham Colonial Wars ii. 44 Madeleine inspired the disconsolate and weary by her example of resolute courage. 2002 K. Ashenburg Mourner's Dance (2009) ix. 234 Once more, the disconsolate were the masters of consolation. 2. A disconsolate person. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > dejected or gloomy person unhappy hooka1529 drooper1577 disconsolate1631 desponder1689 mope1693 moper1721 despondent1812 misery1888 crape-hanger1921 Dismal Desmond1926 Dismal Jimmy1927 crêpe-hanger1930 Eeyore1932 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd vi. 79 O disconsolate that I am! my misfortunes still pursue me. 1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions v. 151 The Rooms hung with Black, And in one of them lay the poor Disconsolate, upon a Couch with her Condoling Friends about her. 1749 S. Fielding Governess 64 Fidus..beheld in the midst of the Multitude, standing in a pensive Posture, the fair Disconsolate. 1780 S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett III. civ. 16 Raymond, our poor disconsolate—the mutual joy of our hearts. 1849 H. Melville Jrnl. 7 Nov. (1989) 14 Two disconsolates on board the ship. 1873 Boston Daily Advertiser 2 Aug. 1/9 A hundred or more disconsolates who had lost money on the second race. 1902 Rep. Iowa State Hort. Soc. 36 511 Realizing very keenly how much misery loves the company of the more miserable we will..invite any and all of your disconsolates to come up our way. 1987 P. Wolfe Corridors of Deceit ii. 38 These two disconsolates share at least one disturbing feature; they show that the spy whose hopes get crushed in the field can be an outsider. 2006 M. O'Donnell Doctor Donovan's Bequest 184 Only a handful of disconsolates idled along the front or lent on the railings gazing out to sea. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † disconsolatev. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymon: disconsolate adj. Etymology: < disconsolate adj., after Middle French desconsolater (1530 in Palsgrave; compare quot. 1530). Compare Middle French desconsoler (1580), Portuguese desconsolar (14th cent.). Compare consolate v. and earlier disconsolation n. Obsolete. transitive. To make disconsolate; to dishearten, distress. Also reflexive. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > render miserable [verb (transitive)] discomforta1398 wretcha1513 desolate1530 disconsolate1530 distress1586 unhappy1597 uncomfort1637 infelicitate1654 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 518/1 I disconsolate, I bring out of comfort, je desconsolate. This terme is nat yet comenly used. Who hath thus disconsolated hym: qui la ainsi desconsolaté? 1601 R. Yarington Two Lamentable Trag. sig. D2 Ah, do not so disconsolate your selfe. 1629 J. Mabbe tr. C. de Fonseca Deuout Contempl. 510 Hee was forced to take Lazarus his life from him, to disconsolate those two kind Sisters. 1699 J. Raynor & J. Coughen tr. N. Fontaine Hist. Old & New Test. (new ed.) 417/1 Disconsolating them, by telling them, They would no more see his Face. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < adj.n.a1413v.1530
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disconsolateadj.n.

† disconsolatev.