Disconsolate (adj)
dis-kon-so-layt
Very unhappy and unable to be comforted.
Late Middle English from medieval Latin disconsolatus, from dis- (expressing reversal) + Latin consolatus (past participle of consolari ‘to console’).
Example sentences
“She was bereft and disconsolate at the situation.”
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