CONSOLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consoling mean? 

• CONSOLING (adjective)
  The adjective CONSOLING has 1 sense:

1. affording comfort or solace

  Familiarity information: CONSOLING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSOLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Affording comfort or solace

Synonyms:

comforting; consolatory; consoling

Similar:

reassuring (restoring confidence and relieving anxiety)

 Context examples 

This was not very consoling to Mrs. Bennet, and therefore, instead of making any answer, she went on as before.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

If he would now speak to her with the unreserve which had sometimes been too much for her before, it would be most consoling; but that she found was not to be.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mary, very much gratified by this attention, was delighted to receive him, while a thousand feelings rushed on Anne, of which this was the most consoling, that it would soon be over.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"To the devil!" was the consoling answer.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It's so consoling!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Late at night I heard him consoling Dr. Huxtable, prostrated by the tragedy of his master’s death, and later still he entered my room as alert and vigorous as he had been when he started in the morning.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This would soon have led to something better, of course, was her consoling reflection; any thing interests between those who love; and any thing will serve as introduction to what is near the heart.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Thorpe, however, had one great advantage as a talker, over Mrs. Allen, in a family of children; and when she expatiated on the talents of her sons, and the beauty of her daughters, when she related their different situations and views—that John was at Oxford, Edward at Merchant Taylors', and William at sea—and all of them more beloved and respected in their different station than any other three beings ever were, Mrs. Allen had no similar information to give, no similar triumphs to press on the unwilling and unbelieving ear of her friend, and was forced to sit and appear to listen to all these maternal effusions, consoling herself, however, with the discovery, which her keen eye soon made, that the lace on Mrs. Thorpe's pelisse was not half so handsome as that on her own.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It was consoling that he should know she had some relations for whom there was no need to blush.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He submitted to believe that Tom's illness had influenced her, only reserving for himself this consoling thought, that considering the many counteractions of opposing habits, she had certainly been more attached to him than could have been expected, and for his sake been more near doing right.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)