Disconsolate
Disconsolate adjective - Causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer.
Usage example: spent her last years in the disconsolate environs of a cheap boarding house
Melancholy is a synonym for disconsolate in sad topic. In some cases you can use "Melancholy" instead an adjective "Disconsolate", when it comes to topics like depressed, forlorn.
Nearby Word: disconsolately
Melancholy
Melancholy adjective - Feeling unhappiness.
Usage example: she was a bit melancholy after her youngest child left for college
Disconsolate is a synonym for melancholy in sad topic. You can use "Disconsolate" instead an adjective "Melancholy", if it concerns topics such as depressed, despondent, forlorn.
Nearby Words: melancholic, melancholia
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- dismal and disconsolate
- dismal and melancholy
- downcast and disconsolate
- downcast and melancholy
- dejected and disconsolate
- dejected and melancholy
- depressed and disconsolate
- depressed and melancholy
- blue and disconsolate
- blue and melancholy
- sad and disconsolate
- sad and melancholy
- unhappy and disconsolate
- unhappy and melancholy
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