INCONSOLABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inconsolable mean? 

• INCONSOLABLE (adjective)
  The adjective INCONSOLABLE has 1 sense:

1. sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled

  Familiarity information: INCONSOLABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCONSOLABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled

Synonyms:

disconsolate; inconsolable; unconsolable

Context example:

inconsolable when her son died

Similar:

desolate (crushed by grief)

Antonym:

consolable (able to be consoled)

 Context examples 

Was he so very fond of his brother as to be still inconsolable for his loss?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The children were inconsolable, and Mr. Bhaer's hair stuck straight up all over his head, for he always rumpled it wildly when disturbed in mind.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But that he was for ever inconsolable, that he fled from society, or contracted an habitual gloom of temper, or died of a broken heart, must not be depended on—for he did neither.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

They had been thrown together several weeks; they had been living in the same small family party: since Henrietta's coming away, they must have been depending almost entirely on each other, and Louisa, just recovering from illness, had been in an interesting state, and Captain Benwick was not inconsolable.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

By that her eye was instantly caught and long retained; and the perusal of the highly strained epitaph, in which every virtue was ascribed to her by the inconsolable husband, who must have been in some way or other her destroyer, affected her even to tears.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)