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Disconsolate vs Despondence - What's the difference?

disconsolate | despondence |

As nouns the difference between disconsolate and despondence

is that disconsolate is (obsolete) disconsolateness while despondence is the state of being downcast or despondent.

As an adjective disconsolate

is cheerless, dreary.

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.
  • (Barrow)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    despondence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of being downcast or despondent.
  • Synonyms

    *despondency