disconsolate

dis-KON-suh-litadj

Meaning so sad that nothing can comfort

Memory hook DIS-CONSOLE-ate: can’t be CONSOLED. Theo’s balloon floats away, and nothing helps: not a hug, not a cookie, not even a new balloon. He cannot be consoled; he is disconsolate.

The disconsolate toddler cried for an hour after his balloon floated away.

In context Friends brought cards, cookies and funny movies, but Ivy remained disconsolate; nothing could make up for her best friend moving across the country.

Similar inconsolable, heartbroken, miserable, desolate

Opposite cheerful, comforted, consoled

From Latin disconsolatus: dis (not) + consolatus (comforted).

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