consoling

Reducing grief, sorrow, or disappointment; comforting.

Adjective

  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:

Forms

more consoling most consoling

Derived

consolingly nonconsoling unconsoling

Noun

  1. The act by which somebody is consoled.

Forms

consolings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of console