disconsolateness

  • 11heartsickness — noun feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless • Syn: ↑despondency, ↑despondence, ↑disconsolateness • Derivationally related forms: ↑disconsolate (for: ↑disconsolateness), ↑heartsick …

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  • 12Disconsolate — Dis*con so*late, n. Disconsolateness. [Obs.] Barrow. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 13disconsolate — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin disconsolatus, from Latin dis + consolatus, past participle of consolari to console Date: 14th century 1. cheerless < a clutch of disconsolate houses D. H. Lawrence > 2. dejected, downcast …

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  • 14disconsolate — disconsolately, adv. disconsolation /dis kon seuh lay sheuhn/, disconsolateness, n. /dis kon seuh lit/, adj. 1. without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate. 2. characterized by or&#8230; …

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  • 15disconsolation — noun The state of being disconsolate; gloom. Syn: disconsolateness …

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  • 16acedia — Synonyms and related words: accidia, aloofness, anger, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, avarice, avaritia, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, carelessness, casualness, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair, comatoseness, deadly sin, despair,&#8230; …

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  • 17apathy — Synonyms and related words: Laodiceanism, abeyance, abstraction, abulia, accidia, acedia, alienation, aloofness, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, callousness, calmness,&#8230; …

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  • 18desolation — Synonyms and related words: Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, abandonment, aching heart, agonizingness, agony, agony of mind, anguish, bale, barren, barren land, barrenness, barrens, bitterness, bleeding heart, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup,&#8230; …

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  • 19despair — Synonyms and related words: Schmerz, Slough of Despond, abandon, abandon hope, acedia, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, apathy, bale, become suicidal, bitterness, blank despondency, bleeding heart, broken heart, cave of Trophonius,&#8230; …

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  • 20desperation — Synonyms and related words: acedia, anguish, anxiety, anxiousness, apathy, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair, defeatism, dejection, depression, despair, desperateness, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, distress, foolhardiness,&#8230; …

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