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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Impossible or difficult to console; despondent.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not consolable; incapable of being consoled or alleviated: as, an inconsolable mourner; inconsolable grief.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not consolable; incapable of being consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort; disconsolate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not consolable

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled

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in- +‎ consolable

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