Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being consoled, or of being mitigated by consolation; capable of receiving consolation; admitting of consolation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of receiving consolation.
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- adjective Able or likely to be
consoled .
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- adjective able to be consoled
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm so worried about Michael's mother, she has to be beyond consolable at this time.
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On the same judging panel, Paula Abdul, pop star and choreographer, can watch a contestant fumble through a performance and find something consolable in it and can speak such drivel that she's rumored to be "of diminished capacity" when judging.
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KING: Reverend Schenck, do you think they're ever going to be really consolable?
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Christopher had been barely consolable for days, and my boys, too, were on a short tether.
Garden of Shadows V.C. Andrews 1989
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Christopher had been barely consolable for days, and my boys, too, were on a short tether.
Garden of Shadows V.C. Andrews 1989
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Christopher had been barely consolable for days, and my boys, too, were on a short tether.
Garden of Shadows V.C. Andrews 1989
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Christopher had been barely consolable for days, and my boys, too, were on a short tether.
Garden of Shadows V.C. Andrews 1989
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She blushed appropriately, said some sentimental things about hoping their friendship would not be affected by the change, told him how much she had enjoyed their correspondence, but gave him to understand that it had been mere friendship of course from her point of view, and Harry indulgently allowed her to think that he had hoped for more and was grieved but consolable over the outcome.
Marcia Schuyler Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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Then the primeval Prince Montevarchi came to a violent end at the hands of his librarian, leaving his English princess consolable but unconsoled, leaving also his daughter Flavia married to that other Giovanni
Don Orsino 1881
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'Adder conveyed the information of her husband's flight to the consolable
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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