disconsolately

disconsolately

English

Etymology

    From disconsolate + -ly.

    Adverb

    disconsolately (comparative more disconsolately, superlative most disconsolately)

    1. In a cheerless, dreary manner; in a manner which suggests that one is beyond consolation.
      • 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 44:
        From the bank the lamb looked at her, then faced round to the hut, and, baaing disconsolately, trotted a few paces back.
      • 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 74:
        Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland.

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