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n. - Feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless.

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Usage examples (21)
  • Adjective : Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate. ,disconsolate prospects
  • Some spend all their days in much darkness and disconsolateness, -- disputing it to and fro in their own thoughts, whether their portion and interest lie therein or not.
  • Welsh to nurse her: the tone of her Letters is still full of disconsolateness.
  • "He's there upstairs in the drawing-room, the very picture of disconsolateness."
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