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as in unhappy
feeling unhappiness she was utterly disconsolate when her best friend moved away

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Recent Examples of disconsolate As Wilshere and his players greeted the Norwich fans, across the Riverside pitch, Michael Carrick and his Middlesbrough squad were conducting a disconsolate lap of appreciation in a largely emptied stadium. Michael Walker, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025 After noticing disconsolate tourists wandering the perimeter, Taskinen proposed installing a café on the ground floor and restoring the building’s four spacious apartments into modest but comfortable rooms filled with Artek furniture. Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025 My father, disconsolate, would pace around what had once been their home in an exaggerated performance of his own uselessness. Hazlitt, 2 Apr. 2025 Outside, a disconsolate Santa presses his forehead against the building next door. Liam Sherwin-Murray, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 Outside, a disconsolate Santa presses his forehead against the building next door. Liam Sherwin-Murray, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 By the time the judge adjourned the court, Bryan was disconsolate. Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024 Context: Harris — who served as district attorney of San Francisco, as attorney general of California and as a U.S. senator from the state between 2017 and 2021 — could help electrify an exhausted, disconsolate party. Jacob Knutson, Axios, 22 July 2024 Khoury sees both films as portraits of artists in exile, with Farouk growing increasingly disconsolate over both his personal struggle as a filmmaker and the situation in Palestine. Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 20 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disconsolate
Adjective
  • Morale among agency staff is bleak, according to one CDC official who spoke on the condition that they not be named for fear of reprisals.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 31 July 2025
  • Many people were concerned about their financial situation, as the overall economic outlook was bleak.
    Rocky Sharma, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Adjective
  • Things will become much clearer once Jenkins — who is unhappy with his current contract is currently sidelined with a back injury — begins practicing.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 27 July 2025
  • Galino is unhappy with how Jimenez is running his territory, and thinks Tommy can help the cartel get into the oil business.
    EW.com, EW.com, 27 July 2025
Adjective
  • But men and women who are flying solo—without a spouse—typically report their lives to be less meaningful and more lonely.
    Brad Wilcox, The Atlantic, 29 July 2025
  • The series is handsomely composed — NFL Films knows how to capture sunlight slanting through shoulder pads and the lonely geometry of empty stadiums.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 July 2025
Adjective
  • The sad reality is that Lucky really hasn't had all that much luck in his life to date.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 July 2025
  • Collins, who has previously celebrated the unique pleasures of the early dinner, finds something to like about lunch in all its guises—the power lunch, the liquid lunch, even the sad desk lunch.
    Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • The fact that the jokes about Joao Felix come so easily is a little depressing.
    Liam Twomey, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2025
  • Ari Aster’s first feature kicked off with the accidental decapitation of a child, and each subsequent film has only gotten more depressing from there.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • Now Ortberg’s plan to gradually raise the severely depressed production of its cash cow Max is showing green shoots, but to ensure dominance in the next decade, Boeing’s top chance at besting Airbus is designing and successfully commercializing a totally new and disruptive 737 successor.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2025
  • Researchers think this effect could buffer against or repair some of the weaker ties between neurons in a depressed brain.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • In Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s energetic capital, golden spires of the Royal Palace gleam above the river, while visits to the Killing Fields reveal the city’s somber history.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • The convention, originally planned as a celebratory coronation, transformed into a tense, somber, and ultimately pivotal gathering.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
Adjective
  • But making Anna a music-biz manager trying to keep her heartbroken client Ella (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) from a meltdown on the eve of a big concert at the Wiltern is just a laborious way of wedging Anna’s former band, Pink Slip, into a splashy concert climax.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
  • But his chosen career path ended his life — and nearly killed his heartbroken father, who suffered a stroke upon hearing the news that his son had been gunned down.
    Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 29 July 2025

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“Disconsolate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disconsolate. Accessed 8 Aug. 2025.

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