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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless;
[syn: despondency, despondence, heartsickness, disconsolateness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Disconsolate \Dis*con"so*late\, a. [LL. disconsolatus; L. dis- + consolatus, p. p. of consolari to console. See Console, v. t.] 1. Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent. [1913 Webster] One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate. --Moore. [1913 Webster] The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. --Ray. Syn: Forlorn; melancholy; sorrowful; desolate; woeful; hopeless; gloomy. -- Dis*con"so*late*ly, adv. -- Dis*con"so*late*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

disconsolateness n 1: feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless [syn: despondency, despondence, heartsickness, disconsolateness]