consolation
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3.8
- noun
- /ˌkɒn.səˈleɪ.ʃən/
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consuelo
- After losing the match, my friend's kind words offered me some consolation during a difficult time.
- offer consolation
- consolation prize
- little consolation
My my consolation prize was like a box full of toys.
- My my consolation prize was like a box full of toys.
- There's something there that is a consolation in the fact that he won the consolation medal.
- Writing is less limited in the consolations it offers who have lost a great deal in their life.
- The look on his face just just spoke this great sense of joy and peace and calm and consolation and it really called out to me.
- Because for that man, all right, for a lot of men, being able to just kick it with you, lay down with you, whatever is kind of like the consolation prize.
- But anyways, if there's any consolation, you came up first page.
- But that's just a small consolation prize, man.
- But because there is still an attraction there and he's already gone into this process, many men will still try to get the consolation prize of having sex with you.
- A consolation, consolation. But then only thing which bring inner peace
- Do you have any any consolation for the non VR gamers like and there their their griefs.
Examples
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If it's any consolation, you did the best you could.
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BRIDGET : I may have been another year older and still single, but I could always take consolation in my job as top news producer.
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If it's any consolation, after a while, you do get used to it.
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But if it's any consolation to you... you have put a smile on my face.
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The two women were good friends and found consolation in each other's company.
Fiction book (1994) -
"My dear friend," he begins, "at such times how little consolation words can provide."
Fiction book (1996) -
If it's any consolation, you're looking good.
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Well, that's some consolation, at least.
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Eventually, as an adult, he finds redemption, or at least consolation, in his work:
Academic text (1991) -
This grief is crown'd with consolation.
Synonyms
319
1.0
Things people say or do to make someone feel less worried
55
5.1
Comfort that helps you when you feel sad or upset
5
9.8
Help given to people in a difficult or dangerous time
Comfort that helps you feel less sad during hard times
An act of giving comfort to someone who is sad
Antonyms
How Comforting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Consolation comes from the Latin parts com- 'with' and solari 'to soothe', and you can see the same root in the verb console; so a consolation is something that 'soothes' or brings comfort after a loss.