adjective
- Sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled.
- usage: "inconsolable when her son died"
- synonyms: inconsolable, unconsolable
- Causing dejection.
- usage: "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
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