| 单词 | disconsolate |
| 释义 | disconsolate (once / 1775 pages) adj If you are sad and can't be cheered up, you're disconsolate. Why are you disconsolate after scoring a touchdown? Oh . . . for the other team. In addition to meaning "inconsolable," the adjective disconsolate can also mean "dejected." Most people would be disconsolate after being laid off from a job, but you're taking it right in stride since you never wanted to be a manager anyway. With your frizzy orange hair, clown college will be perfect fit for you. Good luck! WORD FAMILYdisconsolate: disconsolately, disconsolateness USAGE EXAMPLESOn Wednesday, she was one of the disconsolate residents waiting outside a local morgue. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) Photographers and sports writers pestered him, milking his anguish, and disconsolate cranks harassed his parents. Washington Post(Nov 23, 2016) The theme was love, and we saw many shades of it — defiant, disconsolate, serene — in these mini-dramas. Washington Post(Nov 13, 2016) 1adj sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled Syn|Ant inconsolable, unconsolable desolate crushed by grief consolable able to be consoled 2adj causing dejection a disconsolate winter landscape Syn blue, dark, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry cheerless, depressing, uncheerful causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy |
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