Effervescent vs Disconsolate - What's the difference?
effervescent | disconsolate |
(of a liquid) Giving off bubbles; fizzy.
Vivacious and enthusiastic.
* {{quote-news
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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.
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)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)- 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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