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The definition of disconsolate is someone who cannot be comforted, or is a place or thing that offers no comforts.

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When a person is very sad and cannot be comforted or made happy, this is an example of someone who would be described as disconsolate.
When a hotel room is barren and offers no comforts, it is an example of a place that would be described as disconsolate.

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See disconsolate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

so unhappy that nothing will comfort; inconsolable; dejected
causing or suggesting dejection; cheerless

Origin: ME < ML disconsolatus < L dis- + consolatus, pp. of consolari: see dis- & console

Related Forms:

disconsolately adverb
disconsolateness noun or disconsolation

See disconsolate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Seeming beyond consolation; extremely dejected: disconsolate at the loss of the dog.
Cheerless; gloomy: a disconsolate winter landscape.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus

Origin: : Latin dis-, dis-

Origin: + cōnsōlātus

Origin: , past participle of cōnsōlārī, to console; see console¹

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Related Forms:

dis·conˈso·late·ly adverb

dis·conˈso·late·ness, dis·conˌso·laˈtion (-kŏnˌsə-lāˈshən) noun

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