Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible or difficult to console.
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- adjective Not
consolable .
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- adjective sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled
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Examples
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If a kid fell off the merry-go-round the mother or nanny watching them would run over and, if they were bleeding or unconsolable, take them away.
Understand, Rubberband? Christian Crumlish 2011
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"Those three guys that you'd mentioned, plus Nick Backstrom, were probably the most actually unconsolable, if that's the right word, after the games," Boudreau said.
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Pumpkinpie woke up in the night screaming, flailing, unconsolable, unapproachable, possibly from a dream, for the second time this week.
Archive 2007-06-01 kittenpie 2007
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Pumpkinpie woke up in the night screaming, flailing, unconsolable, unapproachable, possibly from a dream, for the second time this week.
Respite kittenpie 2007
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Hillary Clinton is going to weep and moan with unconsolable regret for having called Obama naive and irresponsible.
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It disturbed me in my comfort spots, comforted me in my disturbed spots, and, as an erstwhile writer of fiction, I was simultaneously enraptured by her facility with words and timing; and nearly unconsolable and jealous and angry with myself for not working harder at it than I do.
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In the case of Miss Gotbaum, she was extremely agitated, yelling and screaming, unconsolable, would not calm down.
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I'm actually outside the family's villa here in quite a wealthy neighborhood just outside Dubai City, and just a short while ago, her husband, her three children, the eldest being a 19-year-old who had been visiting from Oxford University had been here on holiday, unconsolable as they left.
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Iran understands its position in the world, albeit from a point of view that is distinctly colored by a rigid orthodoxy and an unconsolable regret that Persia did not permanently influence the world when it might have millennia ago.
Phoney War 2007
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HARRIS: But up first this hour, uncontrollable anger and unconsolable grief in a tragic ending no parent should ever have to face.
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