disconsolate

adj

1. Cheerless, dreary.

   “I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.”

   “a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts, / With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits, / Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are, / And might, if my extreames had ful euents, / Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death.”

   “But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?”

   “Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.”

   “[S]itting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.”

2. Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.

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

   “overwhelmed with disconsolate sorrow”

noun

1. (obsolete)Disconsolateness.