consolingadjective
/kənˈsəʊ.lɪŋ//kənˈsoʊ.lɪŋ/making or intended to make someone feel better when they are sad or disappointed:
There's something very consoling about being with friends who understand what you're going through.
consoling words
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- The Reverend had consoling words to offer the nation.
- It's very consoling to feel that someone is watching over me.
- The attentive reader will not be so quick to embrace this consoling conclusion.
- Sometimes a good cry can be consoling.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Reassuring
- assure
- be/take a weight off your mind idiom
- blandishments
- calm (sb) down
- comfort
- comforting
- consolation
- console
- consolingly
- convince
- emollient
- get (sth) through (to sb)
- heartening
- lighten
- mind
- no news is good news idiom
- settle (sb) down
- should
- they should worry! idiom
- weight
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