Disconsolate vs Drear - What's the difference?
disconsolate | drear | 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.
(poetic) Dreary.
* 1794, , lines 1-2
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* 1922 , , XXVIII, lines 1-2
(obsolete) Gloom; sadness.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.2:
*:She thankt him deare / Both for that newes he did to her impart, / And for the courteous care which he did beare / Both to her love and to her selfe in that sad dreare .
In obsolete terms the difference between disconsolate and drear
is that disconsolate is disconsolateness while drear is gloom; sadness.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
* ----drear
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Earth raised up her head
From the darkness dread and drear ,
- I spoke, perplexed by something in the signs
Of desolation I had seen and heard
In this drear pilgrimage to ruined shrines:
- Now dreary dawns the eastern light,
And fall of eve is drear ,
