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Effervescent vs Disconsolate - What's the difference?

effervescent | disconsolate |

As adjectives the difference between effervescent and disconsolate

is that effervescent is (of a liquid) giving off bubbles; fizzy while disconsolate is cheerless, dreary.

As a noun disconsolate is

(obsolete) disconsolateness.

effervescent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of a liquid) Giving off bubbles; fizzy.
  • Vivacious and enthusiastic.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 22 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0-1 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The effervescent Suarez then went close again as he worked space for a shot after a mazy run but could not keep his close-range shot below the crossbar.}}

    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.
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