Mournful vs Disconsolate - What's the difference?
mournful | disconsolate | Related terms |
Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.
* (Edgar Allan Poe)
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.
Mournful is a related term of disconsolate.
As adjectives the difference between mournful and disconsolate
is that mournful is filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns while disconsolate is cheerless, dreary.As a noun disconsolate is
(obsolete) disconsolateness.mournful
English
Alternative forms
* mournfullAdjective
(en-adj)- Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant.
Synonyms
* See alsodisconsolate
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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