disconsolate
/dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day."
- "a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts, / With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits, / Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are, / And might, if my extreames had ful euents, / Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death."
- "But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?"
- "Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighbouring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest."
- "[S]itting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll."
- "1897, W.S.Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 1. Worst off of all were the very young children, for there had been no rain for weeks, and the street was as dry and clean as a covered court, and, in the lack of mud to wallow in, they sat about the road, disconsolate as poets."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: discōnsōlātus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt/
- British English: /dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more disconsolate (comparative)
most disconsolate (superlative)