Disconsolate vs Disheartened - What's the difference?
disconsolate | disheartened | Related terms |
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.
Discouraged, despairing.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
Disconsolate is a related term of disheartened.
As adjectives the difference between disconsolate and disheartened
is that disconsolate is cheerless, dreary while disheartened is discouraged, despairing.As a noun disconsolate
is (obsolete) disconsolateness.As a verb disheartened is
(dishearten).disconsolate
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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Anagrams
* ----disheartened
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He refused to get disheartened , even when all 50 writers polled by Newsweek predicted he would lose.