disconsolately
advEtymology From disconsolate + -ly.
1
In a cheerless, dreary manner; in a manner which suggests that one is beyond consolation.
- From the bank the lamb looked at her, then faced round to the hut, and, baaing disconsolately, trotted a few paces back.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 44:
- Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 74:
- Synonyms
- bleakly, drearily, dejectedly, inconsolably, unconsolably
- Antonyms
- consolably