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   dis·con·so·late

   /diˈskäns(ə)lət/

   adjective

   • 1. without consolation or comfort; unhappy: "he'd met the man's disconsolate widow"
   • ▪ (of a place or thing) causing or showing a complete lack of comfort; cheerless: "solitary, disconsolate clumps of cattails"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from medieval Latin disconsolatus, from dis- (expressing reversal) + Latin consolatus (past participle of consolari ‘to console’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. disconsolately adverb
   • 2. disconsolateness noun
   • 3. disconsolation noun

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