Hypochondriac vs Disconsolate - What's the difference?
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Related to, or affected by hypochondria
Related to, or located in the hypochondrium.
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.
Hypochondriac is a related term of disconsolate.
As adjectives the difference between hypochondriac and disconsolate
is that hypochondriac is related to, or affected by hypochondria while disconsolate is cheerless, dreary.As nouns the difference between hypochondriac and disconsolate
is that hypochondriac is a person affected with hypochondria while disconsolate is (obsolete) disconsolateness.hypochondriac
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Alternative forms
* hypochondriack (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* valetudinariandisconsolate
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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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