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Definition: Consoling |
ConsolingAdjective1. Affording comfort or solace. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "consoling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
Synonyms: ConsolingSynonyms: comforting (adj), consolatory (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Consoling |
| English words defined with "consoling": bright side ♦ comfort, comfortingly, consolation, consolingly ♦ silver lining, solace. (references) |
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| Author | Quotation |
Friedrich Nietzsche | It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He taught him everything by encouraging and consoling him. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | The misfortune at Detroit was not, however, without a consoling effect. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | A great effort has been made in Spain and Portugal to improve the condition of the people, and it must be very consoling to all benevolent minds to see the extraordinary moderation with which it has been conducted. |
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| "Consoling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Consoling" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 77.78% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 22.22% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
consoling | 3 |
consoling marriage | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "consoling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ngushëllues (comforter, comforting, consolatory, refuge, sympathizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 慰问 (Consoled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lohdullinen (comforting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tröstend (consolatory, solacing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vigasztaló (comforter, comforting, consolatory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 위문. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gerjee (comforting, consolatory), gerjaghey (cheer up, cheering, comfort, console, solace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onsolingcay consolador (cheering, comforter). (various references) consolator (comforter, comforting, consolatory). (various references) sòlasach (comforting, content, pleasant). (various references) utešan (comforting, consolatory). (various references) trösterik (full of consolation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "consoling": consolingly. (additional references) | |
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"Consoling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Consallen, conseling, consiling, consouling, consulling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "consoling" (pronounced kunsō"ling) |
| 4 | -ō" l i ng | Bolling, bowling, cajoling, controlling, doling, enrolling, extolling, foaling, growling, holing, paroling, patrolling, poling, polling, rolling, strolling, tolling, trolling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, bottling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-l-n-n-o-o-s" | |
-1 letter: clonings, glonoins, snooling. | |
-2 letters: cloning, closing, consign, cooling, glonoin, locoing, logions, loosing, noosing, soloing. | |
-3 letters: clings, cogons, coigns, colins, cologs, coloni, colons, congos, coning, conins, consol, cooing, cosign, gonion, igloos, incogs, isogon, isolog, logics, logion, looing, losing, nicols, nosing, onions, soling, solion. | |
-4 letters: cions, cling, clogs, clons, cogon, coign, coils, coins, colin, colog, colon. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-l-n-n-o-o-s" | |
+1 letter: colonising, longicorns. | |
+2 letters: consolingly. | |
+3 letters: cocounseling, congelations. | |
+4 letters: cocounselling, conglobations, congressional, consolidating, incongruously, noncomplyings. | |
+5 letters: conflagrations, postganglionic. | |
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