Depression of how they were being treated
"Don't cry over spilled milk" is a fixed saying that means not to waste time worrying about something that has already happened and cannot be changed.
The analogy for disconsolate could be: as desolate is to barren, disconsolate is to unhappy.
Blue can be used metaphorically to represent feelings of sadness or melancholy, as in "feeling blue," but it does not inherently function as a metaphor without context.
Bleak, dark, unhappy, depressed, discouraged, despairing, gloomy, glum, hopeless, melancholy, sad, sullen, troubled, and upset.
Derrida believed that all human words (and even human thoughts) were only shadows or "traces" of their true meaning, and that their actual meaning could only be expressed compared to other thoughts and words, which he labeled as "différance".
Unhappy, depressed, melancholy.
A melancholy strain means a sad song sung by someone.
melancholy
Melancholy refers to a feeling of deep sadness or sorrow. It can also describe a state of pensive thoughtfulness or introspection.
A good word meaning sad is melancholy.
The meaning of fixed is to fasten in a secured position.
plaintive meaning expressive of suffering or woe
The correct spelling is melancholy (a negative or depressed emotional state).
Melancholy means sad.
Melancholy
Melancholy?
Broken