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Not able to be comforted
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inconsolable
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Word definitions for inconsolable in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ After the death of her baby she was inconsolable . ▪ Doris was inconsolable . How could her husband walk out on her like that? ▪ During the funeral, Doris was inconsolable . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But Castor was dead ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500 (implied in inconsolably ), from Latin inconsolabilis "inconsolable," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + consolabilis "consolable," from consolari (see console (v.)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inconsolable \In`con*sol"a*ble\, a. [L. inconsolabilis: cf. F. inconsolable. See In- not, and Console .] Not consolable; incapable of being consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort; disconsolate. --Dryden. With inconsolable distress she griev'd, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Inconsolable " is a song by American boy band Backstreet Boys . The song was released as the first single from their sixth studio album Unbreakable , which was released on October 30, 2007. It is the group's first single without Kevin Richardson , who ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not consolable
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died" [syn: disconsolate , unconsolable ] [ant: consolable ]
Usage examples of inconsolable.
The inconsolable, despairing Neb, notwithstanding all that his companions could say to induce him to take some rest, wandered all night long on the shore calling on his master.
It appears to the afflicted Mr. Guppy and his inconsolable friend that there is no end to the Dedlocks, whose family greatness seems to consist in their never having done anything to distinguish themselves for seven hundred years.
Quiet among the undertakers and the equipages and the calves of so many legs all steeped in grief, Mr. Bucket sits concealed in one of the inconsolable carriages and at his ease surveys the crowd through the lattice blinds.
Over half the admits to psych wards are things like cheerleaders who swallow two bottles of Mydol over a high-school breakup or gray lonely asexual depressing people rendered inconsolable by the death of a pet.
The other pilot officers had been almost inconsolable, especially since the mission required taking both of the Belles, leaving nothing for them to do but study and bother Hal Smith.
The Russian half-breed wife of Bettles sought the fireplace, inconsolable, and rocked back and forth, and ever and anon flung white wood-ashes upon her raven hair.
I am no great hand at polite insincerities, and give you credit for believing you cannot wish to figure as inconsolable.
On some faces lingered the almost obliterated scars of strife, the marrings of hopeless loss, the fading shadows of sorrows that had seemed inconsolable: the aurora of the great morning had not yet quite melted them away.
He has gone, leaving behind him a young, inconsolable widow, with whom he shared but two years of uxorial bliss.