Definition of "disconsolate" in English

adjective

1. Cheerless, dreary.

   • I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.
   • 1897, W.S.Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 1. Worst off of all were the very young children, for there had been no rain for weeks, and the street was as dry and clean as a covered court, and, in the lack of mud to wallow in, they sat about the road, disconsolate as poets.

2. Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.

   • For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.

noun

1. (obsolete) Disconsolateness.