(v. t.) Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent.
(v. t.) Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights.
Example Sentences:
(1) I suspect you would have said that even it wasn’t a pile of poo,” Lidington observed disconsolately.
(2) But not so – sadly for Labour business spokesman Chuka Umunna and his disconsolate cohorts.
(3) Morrissey: Lord of the Flies Wave upon wave upon wave upon wave washed me up on the desolate, disconsolate island of Rock Celebrity.
(4) But the picture of them sitting disconsolately at home, wrapped in Asda's hot-selling "snuggies" (blankets with sleeves) with the heating turned down, is probably misleading.
(5) We made mistakes and Agüero is a world-class finisher,” a disconsolate Steve McClaren said.
(6) Any further delay [to imposing the contract] just means we will take longer to eliminate [the] weekend effect [of higher death rates among patients admitted to hospital on a Saturday or Sunday].” The Guardian view on the government’s problems: time for intelligent compromise | Editorial Read more The MPs involved were disconsolate at Hunt’s response to what they hoped was a face-saving solution for both sides.
(7) But far beyond his family, he leaves a host of disconsolate people, from his closest friends to those whose only acquaintance was through what he wrote and said, who know they have lost a rare, wondrously talented and wholly original man.
(8) By the fourth goal, one disconsolate Brazil fan near the giant screens on Copacabana beach walked over to a group of Germans and handed them his national flag in a gesture of surrender.
(9) After sliding in to try and stop Negredo scoring Manchester City's second, he got to his feet as if to trudg disconsolently back into position, only to go to ground in agony after something appeared to buckle in his knee.
(10) Even the most disconsolate and recalcitrant rebel concedes that the party has spoken and that the leader’s mandate commands attention, even humility, although not yet sincere respect.
(11) Among angry teachers and disconsolate pupils, there is a particularly loud outcry about shifts in the grade thresholds in GCSE English.
(12) It was the correct decision by the letter of the law, though not by the spirit of the final, as shown when Ashley Williams ran over to console Duke – a former team-mate at Stockport County – as he trudged away disconsolately after the first sending off of his career.
(13) "We felt disconsolate [about the North Koreans' pullout] at first, but we didn't know that would it would last this long," said Yeo Dongkoo, director at Sudo Corporation, which produces handkerchiefs and scarves at Kaesong.
(14) Occasionally groups of disconsolate policemen armed with old Kalashnikovs squat in roadside posts but there is an overwhelming if diffuse sense of threat.
(15) Disconsolate pandas have struggled to breed but that little inconvenience has now been overcome.
(16) Here, Pratt appeared to be the leader, pepping up his disconsolate comrades for the challenges ahead at a time of toil and heartache.
(17) By then, the Conservative battle bus, with David Cameron on board, was heading disconsolately for Wales.
(18) Akinfeev was disconsolate as he trudged off the pitch and into an encouraging if somewhat strange high five from Capello.
(19) This shared conviction left Sunderland’s manager looking on disconsolate as, inspired by Christian Eriksen, Pochettino’s Tottenham monopolised the ball.
(20) Colleagues who remained at their campaign headquarters in Appleton were disconsolate, slumped before a computer screen, slowly realising that almost 500 days of rebellion had ended in failure despite impressive mobilisation of their base.
Forlorn
Definition:
() of Forlese
(v. t.) Deserted; abandoned; lost.
(v. t.) Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate.
(n.) A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.
(n.) A forlorn hope; a vanguard.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other side of the square is a forlorn half-built mosque, abandoned for lack of funds, sprouting grass from its foundations.
(2) As at the hospital, there was a forlorn air about Katine primary school the day we called in.
(3) The stadium was duly dotted with forlorn patches of brightly colored camp t-shirts whose inhabitants spent the game wilting off their seats in temperatures which stood at 101 degrees before kick off.
(4) Such views are increasingly common all over Detroit, the forlorn former capital of America's car industry and now a by-word for calamitous urban decline.
(5) Up to 15 Tory MPs, including the father of the house of commons Sir Peter Tapsell, spoke in support of Mitchell who was seen to cut a forlorn figure when he took his traditional place close to Cameron for the first session of prime minister's questions since he swore at police.
(6) Diego Forlan would have been forlorn to see his shot miss the target.
(7) He and Michael Bradley, in an advanced midfield role, found neat touches and space to trouble the Turkish defence and bring Jozy Altidore into the game as something other than the forlorn lone striker he can be in a 4-2-3-1.
(8) Perched in a grove of poplars and with prayer flags stretching away on all sides, Muktinath is Nepal's second-most sacred site for Hindus after Pashupatinath , which in comparison lies rather forlornly at the end of Kathmandu's international airport runway.
(9) Trump and Ryan could turn to the Democrats for support but the president is such a polarising figure that this seems a forlorn hope.
(10) The latest piece, by Turner-nominated sculptor and installation artists Cornelia Parker, is a mocked-up photo showing Gormley's famous Angel of the North sculpture leaning at a forlorn angle with a symbolically clipped wing.
(11) It is somehow forlorn and vulnerable and desperate and defiant all at once.
(12) It was a misjudgment in the heat of the moment.” The forlorn-looking Formula One world champion muttered: “I can’t really express the way I’m feeling at the moment so I won’t attempt to.
(13) Nadal simply had no answer to Murray’s variety and consistency, cutting an increasingly forlorn figure as he was repeatedly subjected to the rare indignity of being outrallied and out-thought from the back of the court.
(14) There they will be, shivering on the windy platforms of Leuchars-for-St-Andrews, standing forlornly below the train indicator at Euston, holding paper napkins filled with dripping pizzas in Leeds.
(15) There are elements of Andrei Tarkovsky movies – a forlorn wasteland littered with high-tech wreckage.
(16) I was in Peterborough recently, and the mood of dejection was so strong as to feel contagious, crystallised by the obligatory empty shops, forlorn young people looking for dependable work that never comes, and the issue of immigration becoming more divisive than ever.
(17) It sits, forlorn, in a moat of open space, like a lone domino.
(18) Back in Whitstable the kite-surfers were having a ball, leaping high above the sea in the strong gusts of wind, their acrobatics watched forlornly by the seagulls, waiting to scavenge discarded chip wrappers that would never come.
(19) A rather forlorn-looking cup of tepid water into which the bag has yet to be introduced.
(20) Nor on the forlorn hope that punishing the Russian leadership, still less the Russian people, with sanctions could cause the Crimean annexation to be reversed; it will not be.