English to Afrikaans Meaning of disconsolate - somber

Disconsolate :

somber

adjective

somber

Disconsolate :: somberDisconsolately :: mismoedig

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Definitions of disconsolate in English

Adjective(1) sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled(2) causing dejection

Examples of disconsolate in English

(1) I shall not mention your disconsolate country, for it is of no avail to reopen a wound that still aches.(2) I can't say I was too much bothered, though Dolly and Harry were disconsolate .(3) Yet Birmingham's interiors, like her landscapes, tend more often toward the moody and disconsolate , as if each were telling the story of a broken childhood and a later broken heart.(4) It wasn't like people were silent, morosely sipping beer and casting disconsolate glances up to track the progress.(5) The painter creates bleak snowscapes peopled by groups of disconsolate figures, dispersing and recombining.(6) One skater who helps run one of many clubs for children said hundreds of youngsters would be disconsolate .(7) To end on a disconsolate note is not pessimistic, nor is it dark and brooding; it is reality, hitting us in the face, over and over.(8) ├ö├ç├┐They don't make a living out of getting things wrong,├ö├ç├û one disconsolate MP said last night.(9) No one, though, seemed too disconsolate at the prospect of a replay.(10) Spectators aren't going to go home disconsolate if their team loses, as they do in Australia.(11) Daniel is red-eyed from weeping, while John stares unseeingly out of a hotel window, disconsolate .(12) This should be disconsolate in nature, and whining in tone.(13) So off I sloped, rather disconsolate , leaving my second attempt at a French loaf to sulk on the counter, all sunken and miserable-looking.(14) He was staring out of the window, disconsolate that he had to urge me to censor my work.(15) ├ö├ç├┐They never turned up├ö├ç├û was one of the most common post-match complaints from disconsolate supporters.(16) The entire show lacks the disconsolate desolation of Fitzgerald's own great novels and offers flappers and tap dancing in its place.

(1) disconnect ::

ontkoppel

Synonyms

Adjective

1. sad ::

hartseer

2. unconsolable ::

unconsolable

3. dark ::

donker

Antonyms

1. bright ::

helder

2. cheerful ::

vrolike

3. cheery ::

vrolik

4. cordial ::

hartlike

5. festive ::

feestelike

6. friendly ::

vriendelike

7. gay ::

gay

Different Forms

disconsolate, disconsolately

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