How do you use Disconsolate in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like inconsolable or drab, plus the exact meaning.
Disconsolate meaning
- Cheerless, dreary.
- Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
Synonyms of Disconsolate
Using Disconsolate
- The main meaning on this page is: Cheerless, dreary. | Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
- Useful related words include: inconsolable, drab, sorry, grim.
- In the example corpus, disconsolate often appears in combinations such as: the disconsolate, disconsolate and.
Context around Disconsolate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 1 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Disconsolate
- In this selection, "disconsolate" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, similarly, angry, tadema, lacey, nation and surprise stand out and add context to how "disconsolate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after the disconsolate lacey was and all the disconsolate surprise of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "disconsolate" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with disconsolate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Lorax said to be disconsolate. (5 words)
Barrow, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, p. 41 Her death left Tadema disconsolate and depressed. (13 words)
Angry, disconsolate, and tired by his burden, Jesus is confronted by lepers, cripples, and beggars, all wanting to be healed. (20 words)
Toward the end of her session, Joni described how, when friends came to visit her, she’d break down crying, and they’d tell her that they’d felt similarly disconsolate when they were new mothers. (36 words)
Leopardi contemplates the bounty of nature and the world which smiles at him invitingly, but the poet has become misanthropic and disconsolate with the declining of his health and youth and the deprivation of all joy. (36 words)
In retrospect, ’s expositional approach may seem a bit cloying, but that’s only because Kuenne is willing to tell a story with all the disconsolate surprise of the tragedy itself. (31 words)
Example sentences (10)
Long after the disconsolate Lacey was finally picked off the ground by his teammates, he said: “I wouldn’t say we thought we were invincible.
The three main speeches were distinct, yet each was ultimately about love and its promise of redemption to a disconsolate nation.
Hadn’t seen a face that disconsolate since the preacher read over the overly proficient coastal child who answered a dare to swim to the buoy in the bay.
In retrospect, ’s expositional approach may seem a bit cloying, but that’s only because Kuenne is willing to tell a story with all the disconsolate surprise of the tragedy itself.
Toward the end of her session, Joni described how, when friends came to visit her, she’d break down crying, and they’d tell her that they’d felt similarly disconsolate when they were new mothers.
Lorax said to be disconsolate.
Angry, disconsolate, and tired by his burden, Jesus is confronted by lepers, cripples, and beggars, all wanting to be healed.
Barrow, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, p. 41 Her death left Tadema disconsolate and depressed.
Leopardi contemplates the bounty of nature and the world which smiles at him invitingly, but the poet has become misanthropic and disconsolate with the declining of his health and youth and the deprivation of all joy.
Michieli was touched by the queen's grief; he wrote she was "extraordinarily in love" with her husband, and was disconsolate at his departure.
Common combinations with disconsolate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: