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consolate

/ˈkɒnsələt/

consolate adjective: comforted, consoled.

Adjective

consolate (comparative more consolate, superlative most consolate)

  1. (obsolete) Comforted, consoled.
  2. (humorous, obsolete) Not disconsolate; contented.
    • [O]ne morning, like Sir Leoline in Christabel, ‘he woke and found his lady dead,’ and remained a very consolate widower, with one small child.1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section I

Verb

IPA/ˈkɒnsəleɪt/

consolate (third-person singular simple present consolates, present participle consolating, simple past and past participle consolated)

  1. (nonstandard, obsolete) To console; to comfort.
    • To consolate thine eare.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • ‘You just talkinʼ to consolate yoʼself by word of mouth.’1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 44

Forms of consolate

Adjective
comparativemore consolate
superlativemost consolate
Verb
third-person singular presentconsolates
present participleconsolating
past participleconsolated
pastconsolated

Origin of consolate

First attested in 1477, in Middle English; borrowed from Latin cōnsōlātus, perfect active participle of cōnsōlor, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of console.

Words formed from consolate

Questions about consolate

What does consolate mean?
Consolate means comforted, consoled.
What part of speech is consolate?
Consolate can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce consolate?
Consolate is pronounced /ˈkɒnsələt/.

Words near consolate in the dictionary

  1. consolable
  2. consolableness
  3. consolably
  4. Consolacion
  5. consolamentum
  6. consolate
  7. consolated
  8. consolates
  9. consolating
  10. consolatio
  11. consolation

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