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Disconsolate vs Hopeless - What's the difference?

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Disconsolate is a related term of hopeless.


As adjectives the difference between disconsolate and hopeless

is that disconsolate is cheerless, dreary while hopeless is without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.

As a noun disconsolate

is (obsolete) disconsolateness.

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

    * ----

    hopeless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • I am a woman, friendless, hopeless .
  • *, chapter=15
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
  • Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
  • Without talent, not skilled
  • He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "hopeless" is often applied: case, situation, romantic, love, cause, person, despair, life, undertaking, alcoholic, man, endeavor, place, pain, agony, project.

    Synonyms

    * desperate

    Antonyms

    * hopeful

    References

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