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 .

Adjective

(en-adj)

In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.

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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}

* (George Bernard Shaw) (1856–1950)

*:The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.

Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.

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Wretched; worthless; mean.

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(lb) Causing unhappiness or misery.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:What's more miserable than discontent?

(lb) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.

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