DISCONSOLATELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disconsolately mean? 

• DISCONSOLATELY (adverb)
  The adverb DISCONSOLATELY has 1 sense:

1. in grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting circumstances or prospects

  Familiarity information: DISCONSOLATELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCONSOLATELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting circumstances or prospects

Synonyms:

desolately; disconsolately

Pertainym:

disconsolate (sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled)

 Context examples 

"Now she's mad. Oh, dear, I wish I hadn't asked you to speak, Mama," said May, looking disconsolately at the empty spaces on her table.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Among the great beams, bulks, and ringbolts of the ship, and the emigrant-berths, and chests, and bundles, and barrels, and heaps of miscellaneous baggage—“lighted up, here and there, by dangling lanterns; and elsewhere by the yellow daylight straying down a windsail or a hatchway—were crowded groups of people, making new friendships, taking leave of one another, talking, laughing, crying, eating and drinking; some, already settled down into the possession of their few feet of space, with their little households arranged, and tiny children established on stools, or in dwarf elbow-chairs; others, despairing of a resting-place, and wandering disconsolately.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With these words he threw the boots towards Mr. Mell, who went back a few paces to pick them up, and looked at them (very disconsolately, I was afraid), as we went on together.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With which words she hurried into the house, as if to shake off the responsibility of my appearance; and left me standing at the garden-gate, looking disconsolately over the top of it towards the parlour window, where a muslin curtain partly undrawn in the middle, a large round green screen or fan fastened on to the windowsill, a small table, and a great chair, suggested to me that my aunt might be at that moment seated in awful state.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)