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When someone is disconsolate, they are so sad that comfort cannot seem to reach them. It is a heavy, word — you meet it in novels and careful writing more than in the corridor. A student who failed a test is sad or upset; a person who has lost someone they love, and who sits as if nothing you say can help, is closer to disconsolate. Stronger than unhappy, a little more literary than . People sometimes stretch it to any deep gloom, but the core picture is this: comfort has been taken away, and it is not coming back easily. It is an adjective. You will almost never hear it in casual Taiwan classroom talk; sadly or devastated does the everyday job.
愁苦不堪、無法寬慰
組成From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”): dis- (“away”) + cōnsōlātus (“consoled”).
同家族的字
- consolethe verb meaning to comfort someone; both from Latin cōnsōlātus — not the game machine
- consolationcomfort given to someone who is sad; same Latin root
- inconsolableso sad that no one can comfort you; same root, and the word people actually say
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
disconsolateadj/dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt/
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Cheerless, dreary.
- I opened my eyes to this disconsolate day.
- a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts, / With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits, / Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are, / And might, if my extreames had ful euents, / Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death.
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Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
- For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.
- overwhelmed with disconsolate sorrow
disconsolatenoun/dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt/
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obsoleteDisconsolateness.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。