DISCONSOLATE Synonyms: 220 Similar and Opposite Words

disconsolate

adjective

dis-ˈkän(t)-sə-lət

as in bleak

causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer spent her last years in the disconsolate environs of a cheap boarding house

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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 However, the short-term pain was acute, and Wrexham’s players sat on the ground and looked disconsolate after the final whistle — even though the Hull-Norwich match hadn’t finished. —

Steve Douglas, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026 In the background of the shot, Arsenal’s players and staff stand yards apart, disconsolate. —

Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026 Last week, a moving van transported Andrew’s possessions from his home in Windsor’s Royal Lodge to a farm on the King’s Sandringham estate, after he was photographed, disconsolate, riding a horse. —

Sam Knight, New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2026 Amby is disconsolate on the drive home. —

Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 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 By the time the judge adjourned the court, Bryan was disconsolate. —

Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024

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Speaking at an event held at the Aloft Hotel in Doral, a hub for Venezuelan diaspora activism, Guanipa painted a bleak picture of conditions inside Venezuela and sharply criticized the country’s current leadership, accusing those in power of clinging to control despite widespread rejection.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026
Without giving too much away about the endings of Caveat and Oddity, McCarthy (like Ohm) leans toward the bleak and open-ended.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 1 May 2026