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inconsolable

adjective
🔊/ˌɪnkənˈsəʊləbl/
🔊/ˌɪnkənˈsəʊləbl/
(also less frequent unconsolable)
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  1. very sad and unable to accept help or comfort悲痛欲绝的；无法慰藉的
    • They were inconsolable when their only child died.他们唯一的孩子去世时，他们简直痛不欲生。🔊🔊
    • inconsolable grief无法抚慰的悲伤
    Topics Feelingsc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryInconsolable is used with these nouns:
    • grief
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    Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French, or from Latin inconsolabilis, from in- ‘not’ + consolabilis ‘able to be consoled’, from the verb consolari (from con- ‘with’ + solari ‘soothe’).