#346 disconsolate

disconsolate- adjective sad beyond comfort; inconsolable; disappointed; dejected

C14 from Medieval Latin disconsolatus; from dis+ consolatus comforted

He would have gone moping about for years in disconsolate solitude, silent and sullen as a ghost.

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