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Meanings of disconsolate in английском
Sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled.
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Синонимы
Examples for "dark"
Examples for "dark"
1
They were buried in dust in the dark room in the clock-tower.
2
No, no; that would be luxurious; let us chat in the dark.
3
No, no; the man who is in the dark is in safety.
4
The leader is a dark-brown stallion; the mares are lighter in colour.
5
I'd felt dark power similar to this before today-similar ,butnot identical.
1
Semihard; blue; goat; mellow; small; square; a quarter to a half pound.
2
A sea of blue state police cars stood motionless ahead of them.
3
For example, left hand to blue crimp, right foot to green pinch.
4
The sea was quite calm, the sky was so clear and blue.
5
The wind blows soft; the sky is blue; the sun shines bright
1
He immediately said: 'I'm really sorry I interrupted such an important process.
2
I kept saying, 'Yes, sir; sorry, sir,' trying to calm him down.
3
His home had been left in a sorry state, Mr Oakes said.
4
Fine, fine, I stopped feeling sorry for myself long enough to answer.
5
She answered it without speaking and a moment later said, I'm sorry.
1
It is possible the situation is less grim than it currently appears.
2
The Baghdad I left behind five years ago was a grim place.
3
Scotland's chief medical officer had another grim message for the public today.
4
They bring the grim reality of male violence into our living rooms.
5
This was the actual, and often quite grim, reality of the frontier.
1
The planet's inhabitants will remain gloomy, however, even despite their new surroundings.
2
Chris's own father had reached the gloomy state of mind long ago.
3
In general, he had the most gloomy ideas concerning almost all events.
4
Rival Spanish hotel chain Melia MEL.MC reported similarly gloomy results last week.
5
But it may point to a gloomy long-term outlook for energy prices.
1
I have listened with the greatest good nature to your dreary conversation.
2
The long dreary day of New York suddenly switched dramatically to evening.
3
It was a dank, dreary house but Aidan immediately saw its potential.
4
It would be too dreary and boresome for me in my grave.
5
The wind swept in fainter and fainter gusts across the dreary moor.
1
Johansson said some improvement was seen next year over a dismal 2009.
2
This year has proved dismal for most investors in Irish technology stocks.
3
He said spirits would start to lift after the dismal rugby result.
4
Food was paltry and hygienic conditions often dismal in damp overcrowded cells.
5
Somehow I doubt it; it would be a dismal view of humanity.
1
Horrific cases involving children and young people make headlines with depressing regularity.
2
A depressing number of the electorate feel that nothing ever really changes.
3
In a way, it was depressing that matters had reached this point.
4
He urged counter-cyclical measures that would work against the trends depressing activity.
5
In spite of the sunshine the walk through the battle-field was depressing.
1
The house they stopped in front of was rather dingy and forbidding.
2
Image matters and what will a cramped, dingy space say about yours?
3
The second rescue was again of Kiribati fishermen, missing in a dingy.
4
Four or five dingy forms dart in and out among the tepees.
5
Rouletabille crossed the court and entered the dingy old room once more.
1
Will I see the familiar, drab reality of the original Gerald Livingstone?
2
The elevators were along a far wall, but their doors were drab.
3
The sixth-form library-cum-common room of a Stockport public school is timelessly drab.
4
Thanks for adding a ray of sunshine to those otherwise drab days.
5
The room was drab, disgusting; he wanted to get out of it.
1
Fog machines provide a dispiriting miasma; the puddles come from water trucks.
2
It conflicts with the box set regime, and it can be dispiriting.
3
I had nothing to complain of; but the effect was rather dispiriting.
4
But the period after the interval was even more dispiriting for Chelsea.
5
This is pretty dispiriting, bordering on manically depressing, from a European perspective.
1
Every object on the wall was plainly visible in this drear light.
2
My pleasing fancies dispersed- Iagainfaced the drear reality of my position.
3
Night fell upon the waters, dark and drear, and thick and misty.
4
And the Nightfort is a haunted ruin, a drear and dreadful place.
5
Otherwise it was all so cold, so drear, so dead, so unaffecting.
Usage of disconsolate in английском
1
The landlady moved in the background, a disconsolate figure with a grievance.
2
I waited for ages, sipping fizzy water and becoming steadily more disconsolate.
3
Nor was the disconsolate matron the only one who lamented her losses.
4
The schoolmistress did not look in the least disconsolate after Nicky's departure.
5
G. Look up, thou poor disconsolate; you speak of quitting earthly enjoyments.
6
Far below it the turbid Catawba gleamed yellow along its disconsolate valley.
7
Back they go disconsolate, carrying the lifeless seneschal on the shield reversed.
8
It was the only disconsolate hour of his day, this summer weather.
9
At the foot of each is a cartoon of a disconsolate bird.
10
Her eyes were red with weeping, and her appearance was altogether disconsolate.
11
Meanwhile, I had been jogging along through the country, lonely and disconsolate.
12
And disconsolate went away those dukes and princes, and troubadours in disguise.
13
Her disconsolate partner was not nearly through with his breath or enthusiasm.
14
Don't be disconsolate, Skinner; I'll look in on you now and then.
15
At a street corner sat, and played with a wind, Winter disconsolate.
16
Jack found Brinsmead looking very disconsolate at the turn affairs had taken.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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