Disconsolate Definition

disconsolate
adjective
  1. sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died"
  2. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

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