disconsolatoryadj.
/dɪskənˈsɒlət(ə)ri/, /dɪskənˈsəʊlət(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌdɪskənˈsoʊləˌtɔri/ Now somewhat rare.
Tending to make or leave disconsolate; causing unhappiness; distressing. Also: characterized by disconsolation.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [adjective] > rendering miserable
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disconsolatinga1665
desolating1813
1654 T. Warren Vnbeleevers 67 Our doctrine is no way disconsolatory to the soules of any.
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος To Rdr. sig. d4v A restless, unquiet, and disconsolatory Sea.
1742 J. Bartram Let. 25 Sept. in Corr. (1992) 204 This..was but disconsolatory news to me.
1758 J. Johnson Love of God 67 The Tears of Sorrow, which are naturally drawn forth by the present disconsolatory Providence.
1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize III. iv. 30 Disconsolatory as it was to hear of such treatment of a gospel-minister.
1866 Belfast News-let. 12 May The little bitch was very downcast for some days, and in her disconsolatory ramblings she found a rabbit's nest.
1886 Railway News 3 July 54/2 The year 1885 promised ill from its commencement,..and, but for the change in political affairs so shortly before it ended, the task of reporting on it would have been a most disconsolatory one.
1977 J. Reichert Making Sense of Lit. v. 147 The disconsolatory or expectation-frustrating purposes of those modern writers.
1994 M. Gurewitch Ironic Temper & Comic Imagination i. 43 Sources of farcical chaos (occasionally touched, like a good deal of clowning, by disconsolatory notes).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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