Crossword clues for inconsolable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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,
And from her cheek the rose of beauty fled.
--Falconer.
-- In`con*sol"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`con*sol"a*bly, adv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Not consolable
WordNet
adj. sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died" [syn: disconsolate, unconsolable] [ant: consolable]
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 had left the group in 2006. The single hit the U.S. radio outlets on August 27, 2007. It was first confirmed on July 25, 2007 and premiered by Jive at Z-100 - New York's Hit Music Station on August 6. The Single entered Top 10 in seven countries.
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.