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Disconsolate vs Dispirited - What's the difference?

disconsolate | dispirited |

As adjectives the difference between disconsolate and dispirited

is that disconsolate is cheerless, dreary while dispirited is without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.

As a noun disconsolate

is (obsolete) disconsolateness.

As a verb dispirited is

(dispirit).

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

    * ----

    dispirited

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dispirit)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.
  • So dispirited were the troops after the loss of their beloved commander that they moped about and could barely be bothered to eat let alone load their guns.
  • *{{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The shift in the balance of power online has allowed anyone to publish to the world, from dispirited teenagers in south London to an anonymous cyber-dissident in a Middle East autocracy.}}