disconsolateness
41misery — n 1. trial, tribulation, trial and tribulation, test, ordeal; load, burden, heavy load or burden; trouble, adversity, misfortune, affliction, suffering, distress, oppression, mortification; blow, shock, stab, pain, throe. 2. destitution,… …
42sorrow — n 1. grief, sadness, Archaic. dole, woe, ruth, heartache, heartbreak; misery, Archaic. bale, dolor, anguish; ache, hurt, pain, suffering; torture, torment, agony; bereavement, mourning; woefulness, wretchedness, heaviness of heart, desolation,… …
43woe — n 1. misery, wretchedness, grief, anguish, agony of mind or spirit, bitterness, Archaic. bale; sorrow, sadness, infelicity, unhappiness, dolor, heartache, heartbreak, broken heart, broken heartedness, heartsickness, heavy heart; desolation,… …
44desolation — /dɛsəˈleɪʃən/ (say desuh layshuhn), /dɛz / (say dez ) noun 1. the act of desolating. 2. the state of being desolated. 3. devastation; ruin. 4. dreariness; barrenness. 5. deprivation of companionship or comfort; loneliness; disconsolateness. 6. a… …
45disconsolate — /dɪsˈkɒnsələt / (say dis konsuhluht) adjective 1. without consolation or solace; unhappy; inconsolable. 2. characterised by or causing discomfort; cheerless; gloomy. {Medieval Latin disconsōlātus, from dis dis 1 + Latin consōlātus, past… …
46desperation — [n1] hopelessness agony, anguish, anxiety, concern, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disconsolateness, distraction, distress, fear, gloom, grief, heartache, melancholy, misery, pain, pang, sorrow, torture,… …
47gloom — [n1] melancholy, depression anguish, bitterness, blue devils*, blue funk*, blues*, catatonia, chagrin, cheerlessness, dejection, desolation, despair, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, dismals, distress, doldrums, dolor,… …
48sadness — [n] unhappiness, depression anguish, blahs*, bleakness, blue devils*, blue funk*, broken heart*, bummer, cheerlessness, dejection, despondency, disconsolateness, dismals*, dispiritedness, distress, dolefulness, dolor, downcastness, downer*,… …
49disconsolate — [dis kän′sə lit, dis′kän′sə lit] adj. [ME < ML disconsolatus < L dis + consolatus, pp. of consolari: see DIS & CONSOLE1] 1. so unhappy that nothing will comfort; inconsolable; dejected 2. causing or suggesting dejection; cheerless… …
50disconsolate — adj. 1 forlorn or inconsolable. 2 unhappy or disappointed. Derivatives: disconsolately adv. disconsolateness n. disconsolation n. Etymology: ME f. med.L disconsolatus (as DIS , consolatus past part. of L consolari console) …
