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Synonyms of disconsolate

106 similar words · 1 opposite word

Another word for disconsolate is miserable. Other synonyms of disconsolate are unhappy, depressing, grim, melancholy and depressed. The opposite of disconsolate is consolable.

Synonyms and similar words for disconsolate

adjectiveCheerless, dreary.

  • bleakUnhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
  • drearyDrab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
  • downcastOf a person: feeling despondent or discouraged.
  • cheerlessDevoid of cheer; gloomy.
  • comfortlessOf a thing: offering no comfort; uncomforting.
  • darkConducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
  • moroseSullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
  • depressingCausing depression or sadness.
  • desolateDismal or dreary.
  • direExpressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
  • dismalCausing despair; gloomy and bleak.
  • dolefulFilled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
  • dolesomeCharacterised or marked by sorrow and grief; doleful; dismal; gloomy.
  • drearDreary.
  • drearisomeCharacterised or marked by dreariness.
  • dreich UK, dialectalBleak, cheerless, dismal, dreary, miserable.
  • forlornPitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
  • gaylessLacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab.
  • grayDreary, gloomy, cloudy.
  • gloomsomeCharacterised or marked by gloom.
  • gloomySuffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.
  • grimDismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
  • joylessWithout joy; unhappy, sad.
  • lack-laughterCheerless; sombre; serious.
  • lugubriousGloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
  • melancholyAffected with great sadness or depression.
  • mirthlessLacking mirth; devoid of joy; sad.
  • miserableIn a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
  • no joke
  • saturnineOf a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomy.
  • somber
  • sombreDark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
  • spiritlessLacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.
  • sullenGloomy; dismal; foreboding.
  • sunlessDreary, cheerless.
  • uncheerfulNot cheerful.
  • uncheeryNot cheery; gloomy, pessimistic.
  • unhappyNot happy; sad.
  • unmerryNot merry, the opposite of merry; sad, gloomy.
  • wintryChilling, cheerless.
  • woefulFull of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
  • solemn obsoleteCheerless, gloomy, sombre.

adjectiveSeemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.

  • dejectedSad and dispirited.
  • inconsolableNot consolable; unable to be consoled or comforted, usually due to grief, disappointment, or other distress.
  • unconsolableSynonym of inconsolable.
  • atrabiliary
  • atrabilious
  • blithelessWithout happiness or joy; unjoyful; sorrowful; sad.
  • dispiritedWithout energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.
  • blueDepressed, melancholic, sad.
  • bummed outDepressed, disappointed, in a gloomy mood.
  • chapfallenCrestfallen, dejected.
  • chopfallenSynonym of chapfallen.
  • crestfallen
  • cut up Australia, UKEmotionally upset; mentally distressed.
  • damp figuratively
  • depressedUnhappy; despondent.
  • despondentIn low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
  • disgruntledIn a dissatisfied, frustrated, or upset mood; in a bad temper or ill humour.
  • disheartenedDiscouraged, despairing.
  • downSad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
  • down in the dumpsSad; lacking engagement or enthusiasm.
  • down in the mouthSad or discouraged, especially as indicated by one's facial appearance.
  • downheartedSad, discouraged, in low spirits, unhappy, having no hope.
  • downsomeLow-spirited; melancholy.
  • dullBored, depressed, down.
  • elegiacExpressing sorrow or mourning.
  • elegiousMelancholy, miserable, plaintive.
  • glumDespondent; moody; sullen.
  • grief-strickenVery sad.
  • grievingFeeling or showing sorrow or distress due to loss, especially the death of someone.
  • heavy-heartedSad, melancholic.
  • heartsoreHeartsick.
  • heartsickVery despondent or sorrowful; heartsore.
  • infelicitous
  • jawfallenDejected, dispirited.
  • lachrymoseTearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
  • lowDepressed in mood, dejected, sad.
  • low-spiritedDisheartened, feeling low, in low spirits.
  • melancholicFilled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
  • moodySulky or depressed.
  • mopeyGiven to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.
  • mournfulFilled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
  • plaintiveSounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.
  • PlutonianOf, relating to, or having characteristics associated with the underworld; dark, gloomy; mournful.
  • PlutonicSynonym of Plutonian (“of, relating to, or having characteristics associated with the underworld; dark, gloomy...
  • querulousOften complaining; suggesting a complaint in expression; fretful, whining.
  • ruthfulFull of sorrow; sorrowful; woeful; rueful.
  • sad
  • saddened
  • shatteredEmotionally defeated or dispirited.
  • sorrowfulExhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person).
  • sorrow-riddenFilled with sorrow or sorrows.
  • sorrowsomeMarked by sorrow; sad; dreary; sorrowful.
  • threneticSorrowful; mournful.
  • threneticalThrenetic.
  • unlivelyNot lively.
  • wistfulSad and thoughtful.
  • woebegoneOf a person: deeply affected or overwhelmed by suffering or trouble, and so filled with woe (“great distress or...
  • wretchedCharacterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable.
  • lamentful rareReplete with lamentation; mournful.
  • lumpish obsoleteMiserable, sad.
  • passionate obsolete
  • triste rareSad; sorrowful; gloomy.
  • tristful archaicSad, melancholic.
  • woe obsoleteWoeful; sorrowful.

Opposite of disconsolate

adjectiveSeemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.

Meaning of disconsolate

  1. adjective Cheerless, dreary.
  2. adjective Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
  3. noun Disconsolateness.

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Questions about synonyms of disconsolate

What is another word for disconsolate?
Disconsolate has 106 synonyms on Word.ws, such as miserable, unhappy, depressing, grim, melancholy, depressed, dreary and gloomy.
What is the opposite of disconsolate?
The opposite of disconsolate is consolable.
What does disconsolate mean?
Disconsolate means cheerless, dreary.

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