Calumny vs Disconsolate - What's the difference?
calumny | disconsolate |
A falsification or misrepresentation intended to disparage or discredit another.
False charges brought about to tarnish another's reputation or standing.
Cheerless, dreary.
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille'' (in ''The Guardian , 26 November 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/26/arsenal-marseille-match-report-champions-league]
* 1897 , W.S.Maugham, Liza of Lambeth,
Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
(obsolete) Disconsolateness.
As nouns the difference between calumny and disconsolate
is that calumny is a falsification or misrepresentation intended to disparage or discredit another while disconsolate is (obsolete) disconsolateness.As an adjective disconsolate is
cheerless, dreary.calumny
English
Noun
(calumnies)- Accusations of abuse were pure extortive calumny in a malicious bid to make money .
Derived terms
* calumniateSynonyms
* defamation * obloquy * vilification * See alsodisconsolate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.
- Özil looked a little disconsolate when he was substituted late on, though he did set up Wilshere's second with a lovely pass off the outside of his left boot.
- Worst off of all were the very young children, for there had been no rain for weeks, and the street was as dry and clean as a covered court, and, in the lack of mud to wallow in, they sat about the road, disconsolate as poets.
- For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate .
Synonyms
* bleak, dreary, downcast * (beyond consolation) dejected, inconsolable, unconsolableAntonyms
* consolableDerived terms
* disconsolately * disconsolation * disconsolatenessNoun
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