Disconsolate vs Despairing - What's the difference?

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Disconsolate is a related term of despairing.

As adjectives the difference between disconsolate and despairing

is that disconsolate is cheerless, dreary while despairing is feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.

As nouns the difference between disconsolate and despairing

is that disconsolate is (obsolete) disconsolateness while despairing is a mood or display of despair.

As a verb despairing is

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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Anagrams

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despairing

English

Adjective

(-)

Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.

Verb

(head)

Noun

(en noun)

A mood or display of despair.

* (Thomas Carlyle)

But what things soever passed in him, when he ceased to see it; what ragings and despairings soever Teufelsdrockh's soul was the scene of, he has the goodness to conceal under a quite opaque cover of Silence.