adjective
definition
Not consolable; unable to be consoled or comforted, usually due to grief, disappointment, or other distress.
Examples of inconsolable in a Sentence
He'll be inconsolable, Linda said with a delighted laugh.
The old man's grief was agonizing and inconsolable.
When colicky babies appear inconsolable, sometimes the only way to comfort them is to carry them close to your body.
Comte was as inconsolable after Madame de Vaux's death as D'Alembert after the death of Mademoiselle L'Espinasse.
If Venus had looked inconsolable in New York, she looked positively narked in Munich.
The athlete could not be blamed, but she remains understandably inconsolable.
The shaking may occur as a response of frustration to the baby's inconsolable crying or as an action of routine abuse.
Was he so very fond of his brother as to be still inconsolable for his loss?
The inconsolable crying begins suddenly; the legs may be drawn up, and the belly distended.
Hobbes went on for a time living in the household; but his services were no longer in demand, and, remaining inconsolable under his personal bereavement, he sought distraction, in 1629, in another engagement which took him abroad as tutor to the son of Sir Gervase Clifton, of an old Nottinghamshire family.