unconsolable

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Consumers adored her sumptuous and idiosyncratic designs, and when she mysteriously called it quits, her most devoted patrons, sometimes called Philophiles, were disheartened at best and unconsolable at worst.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2019

Gay icon Boy George tweeted he was feeling "unconsolable sadness", while former NSync star Lance Bass expressed his support for his "gay brothers and sisters".

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2016

What could I do? frantic despair; cruel anguish unconsolable.

From Woman's Endurance by Luckhoff, A. D (August D.)

The mother was almost unconsolable, and the young wife was sorely smitten by the bereavement.

From Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Lossing, Benson John

His friends, too, he bound to him by even more than the proverbial hoops of steel, so that when they passed out of life they left him unconsolable.

From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)