different between disconsolate vs desperate

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin disc?ns?l?tus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) +? c?ns?l?tus (“consoled”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /d?s?k?ns?l?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s?k?ns?l?t/

Adjective

disconsolate (comparative more disconsolate, superlative most disconsolate)

1. Cheerless, dreary.

   Synonyms: bleak, dreary, downcast; see also Thesaurus:cheerless

   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille (in The Guardian, 26 November 2013)[1]

     Özil looked a little disconsolate when he was substituted late on, though he did set up Wilshere's second with a lovely pass off the outside of his left boot.

   • 1897, W.S.Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 1.

     Worst off of all were the very young children, for there had been no rain for weeks, and the street was as dry and clean as a covered court, and, in the lack of mud to wallow in, they sat about the road, disconsolate as poets.

   • 1885, Robert L. Steveson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, chapter 7.

     Sitting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.

2. Seemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Pleasantness of Religion (sermon)

     overwhelmed with disconsolate sorrow

   Synonyms: dejected, inconsolable, unconsolable

   Antonym: consolable

Derived terms

• disconsolately
• disconsolation
• disconsolateness

Translations

Noun

disconsolate

1. (obsolete) Disconsolateness.

Anagrams

• consolidates

Latin

Adjective

disc?ns?l?te

1. vocative masculine singular of disc?ns?l?tus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?sp?r?tus, past participle of d?sp?r? (“to be without hope”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?sp(?)??t/

Adjective

desperate (comparative more desperate, superlative most desperate)

1. In dire need of something.

   I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperate for food.

2. Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.

3. Without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious.

4. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable.

5. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous.
6. Extremely intense.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Noun

desperate (plural desperates)

1. A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc.

Derived terms

• desperation

Related terms

• despair
• desperado

Translations

Anagrams

• departees

Danish

Adjective

desperate

1. plural and definite singular attributive of desperat

Latin

Verb

d?sp?r?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?sp?r?

References

• desperate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• desperate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

desperate

1. definite singular of desperat
2. plural of desperat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

desperate

1. definite singular of desperat
2. plural of desperat