disconsolately

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dis·con·so·late

(dĭs-kŏn′sə-lĭt)

adj.

1. Seeming beyond consolation; extremely dejected: disconsolate at the loss of the dog. See Synonyms at depressed.

2. Cheerless; gloomy: a disconsolate winter landscape.

[Middle English, from Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus : Latin dis-, dis- + cōnsōlātus, past participle of cōnsōlārī, to console; see console¹.]

dis·con′so·late·ly adv.

dis·con′so·la′tion (-kŏn′sə-lā′shən) n.

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Adv.

disconsolately - in grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting circumstances or prospects

desolately

Translations

sconsolatamente

disconsolately

[dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪtlɪ] ADV → desconsoladamente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

disconsolately

[dɪsˈkɒnsələtli] adv (= dejectedly) → d'un air abattu

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

disconsolately

adv → untröstlich; (= gloomily) → niedergeschlagen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

disconsolately

[dɪsˈkɒns/əlɪtlɪ] adv → sconsolatamente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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"Perhaps I sha'n't be welcome, then?" Granet remarked disconsolately.

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Jeremy sat disconsolately on the edge of his boat--sucking his sore fingers and peering down into the water--a MUCH worse thing happened; a really FRIGHTFUL thing it would have been, if Mr.

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The old servant returned to the caleche, looked into it, shook his head disconsolately, told the driver to turn into the yard, and stopped beside Mavra Kuzminichna.

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He had not gone far before he met a wolf, who was limping disconsolately along on three legs, and who on perceiving Ferko began to howl dismally.

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But at length when the sun had utterly departed, the Fay, now the mere ghost of her former self, went disconsolately with her boat into the region of the ebony flood, and that she issued thence at all I cannot say, for darkness fell over an things and I beheld her magical figure no more.

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With this he walked again rather disconsolately upstairs.

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"It isn't so easy for me to forget things, but I'll try," she said disconsolately, "and if you want any more cooking lessons before you go I'll be real glad to teach you anything I know."

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'I know who has been putting that in your head,' rejoined her son disconsolately; 'that's Little Bethel again.

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The woman was cowed and went off disconsolately, hanging her head; and the governor said to the man, "Honest man, go home with your money, and God speed you; and for the future, if you don't want to lose it, see that you don't take it into your head to yoke with anybody." The man thanked him as clumsily as he could and went his way, and the bystanders were again filled with admiration at their new governor's judgments and sentences.

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Nothing was to be seen but a dark and angry sea, and a scowling northern sky; and at night he retired within the jaws of the whale, and nestled disconsolately among seal skins.

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"And there are neither fences nor houses in this part of the land of Oz," added the Scarecrow, disconsolately.

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I roamed disconsolately up and down the bank, keeping as close to him in his involuntary travels as I could, while he wailed and cried till it was a wonder that he did not bring down upon us every hunting animal within a mile.