consolate

Comforted, consoled.

Adjective

  1. Comforted, consoled.
  2. 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:

Origin

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.

Forms

more consolate most consolate

Derived

inconsolate

Verb

  1. 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...
    • ‘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

consolates consolating consolated