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consoling

consoling adjective: reducing grief, sorrow, or disappointment; comforting. Also the present participle and gerund of console.

Adjective

consoling (comparative more consoling, superlative most consoling)

  1. Reducing grief, sorrow, or disappointment; comforting.
    • "The one thing you can rely on is that they won't do anything unnecessary that is palpably to their own disadvantage."
      "That's very consoling," she retorted; […]1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

Noun

consoling (plural consolings)

  1. The act by which somebody is consoled.

Also used as

consoling is also the present participle and gerund of console.

Forms of consoling

Adjective
comparativemore consoling
superlativemost consoling
Noun
pluralconsolings

Words formed from consoling

Questions about consoling

What does consoling mean?
Consoling means reducing grief, sorrow, or disappointment; comforting.
What part of speech is consoling?
Consoling can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near consoling in the dictionary

  1. consolidations
  2. consolidative
  3. consolidator
  4. consolidators
  5. consolidatory
  6. consoling
  7. consolingly
  8. consolings
  9. Consolis
  10. consolised
  11. consolitis

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