disconsolately

In hopeless sadness

Disconsolately means in a manner showing deep unhappiness or dejection that cannot be comforted.

The word suggests grief or disappointment beyond easy remedy: She stared disconsolately at the rejection letter.

Someone acting disconsolately appears beyond cheering up, sunk in gloom.

dejected

crestfallen

Sad from disappointment

disheartened · dispirited · downhearted · heavyhearted · woebegone · sullen · morose · doleful · melancholy · brooding

grief

sorrowing

Experiencing deep sadness

anguished · lamenting · weeping · tearful · grieving · bereft · brokenhearted · devastated · suffering · wailing

hopeless

despairing

Completely without hope

helpless · futile · bleak · desolate · abandonment · surrender · giving up · lost cause · without hope · irredeemable

loneliness

forlorn

Sad and abandoned

forsaken · solitary · desolate · friendless · alone · adrift · estranged · outcast · unwanted · neglected

Opposites
emotional state/manner

disconsolatelyjoyfully

With great pleasure

happily · cheerfully · jubilantly · gleefully · cheerily

capacity for comfort

disconsolatelyplacidly

In tranquil fashion

serenely · peacefully · tranquilly

Family

disconsolate, disconsolateness

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