Modifies a noun

• grief: What a catalog of disasters: favoritism, jealousy, hatred, deceit, and now inconsolable grief.

• sadness: Even tho they live in the moment, even in leaping and bounding joy they display the inconsolable sadness of being.

• sorrow: But he also tells of his inconsolable sorrow at the loss of a friend who died.

Modifying Another Word

• still: Was he so very fond of his brother as to be still inconsolable for his loss?

Used with adjective complement

• look: If Venus had looked inconsolable in New York, she looked positively narked in Munich.

• remain: The athlete could not be blamed, but she remains understandably inconsolable.