Disconsolate vs Dismal - What's the difference?
disconsolate | dismal | Related terms |
Cheerless, dreary.
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* 1897 , W.S.Maugham, Liza of Lambeth,
Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
(obsolete) Disconsolateness.
Disappointingly inadequate.
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Disconsolate is a related term of dismal.
As adjectives the difference between disconsolate and dismal
is that disconsolate is cheerless, dreary while dismal is disappointingly inadequate.As a noun disconsolate
is (obsolete) disconsolateness.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
* ----dismal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Liverpool 0-1 West Brom, passage=Liverpool's efforts thereafter had an air of desperation as their dismal 2012 league form continued.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all. It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.}}
