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Desolate vs Disconsolate - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between desolate and disconsolate

is that desolate is deserted and devoid of inhabitants while disconsolate is cheerless, dreary.

As a verb desolate

is to deprive of inhabitants.

As a noun disconsolate is

disconsolateness.

desolate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
    • a desolate''' isle; a '''desolate''' wilderness; a '''desolate house
  • * Bible, Jer. ix. 11
    • I will make Jerusalem a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate , without an inhabitant.
  • * Tennyson
    • And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among.
  • Barren and lifeless.
  • Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
    • desolate altars
  • Dismal or dreary.
  • Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
    • He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
  • * Keble
    • voice of the poor and desolate

    Verb

    (desolat)
  • To deprive of inhabitants.
  • To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
  • To abandon or forsake something.
  • To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

    • Related terms

    * desolation

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    disconsolate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Cheerless, dreary.
    • I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.
  • * 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]
    • 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.
  • * 1897 , W.S.Maugham, Liza of Lambeth,
    • 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.
  • Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
    • For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate .

    Synonyms

    * bleak, dreary, downcast * (beyond consolation) dejected, inconsolable, unconsolable

    Antonyms

    * consolable

    Derived terms

    * disconsolately * disconsolation * disconsolateness

    Noun

  • (obsolete) Disconsolateness.
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