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

For the next two days she had been unconsolable.

From Grace Harlowe's Problem by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]

Those tears were trivial to the tears we’ve in shed later life, but those first tears moved me to almost unconsolable grief and the emotion caused a flow of poetry.

From Treading the Narrow Way by Barrett, R. E.

The next morning when one of his friends arrived, just before daylight, he was nearly speechless and utterly unconsolable, looking twenty years older.

From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)