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Unconsolable

Definition: Unconsolable

Unconsolable

Adjective

1. Sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unconsolable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)


Synonyms: Unconsolable

Synonyms: disconsolate (adj), inconsolable (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: consolable (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unconsolable

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dejection

Disconsolate; unconsolable, inconsolable; forlorn, comfortless, desolate, desole, sick at heart; soul sick, heart sick; au desespoir; in despair; lost.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Unconsolable

Language Translations for "unconsolable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Vietnamese 

  

không thể l m nguôi được, không thể giải khuây, không thể an ủi (inappeasable). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unconsolable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-l-l-n-n-o-o-s-u"

-3 letters: ballonnes, nonlocals.

-4 letters: alencons, annulose, ballonne, balloons, bullaces, bullnose, closable, colonels, lacunose, lobulose, nonlocal, nucleons, unloosen.

-5 letters: alencon, ancones, ballons, balloon, bascule, beacons, blouson, boucles, boulles, bounces, bullace, buncoes, caboose, callose, callous, cannels, censual, colobus, colonel, colones, colonus, console, counsel, lacunes, launces, lobules, locales, locules, losable, nebulas, noncola, nuances, nucleal, nucleon, nuncles, ocellus.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unconsolable


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 63 6F 6E 73 6F 6C 61 62 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    -.-.    ---    -.    ...    ---    .-..    .-    -...    .-..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110011 01101111 01101100 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#115 &#111 &#108 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0063 006F 006E 0073 006F 006C 0061 0062 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558069818085817867687871

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Unconsolable"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchngười Việt nam tiếng Việt
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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