Verb (used with object), : Only his children could console him when his wife died. From Dictionary.com.
KING: Reverend Schenck, do you think they're ever going to be really consolable?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2006] Reference
I'm so worried about Michael's mother, she has to be beyond consolable at this time. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Jackson's meeting with the Gipper] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [James M. Lynch: Simon Cowell: A True Friend] Reference
Vanishing shades of an attractive and consolable grief. From Wordnik.com. [Images from Works of Charles D. Warner] Reference
And, after all, you only marry a very consolable widow. From Wordnik.com. [Parisians in the Country] Reference
'Adder conveyed the information of her husband's flight to the consolable. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
'Adder conveyed the information of her husband's flight to the consolable Amy,' said Mrs. Lawrence. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable!'. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Don Orsino] Reference
Why are young men quoted as "scarce" in other resorts swarming with sweet girls, maidens who have learned the art of being agreeable, and interesting widows in the vanishing shades of an attractive and consolable grief?. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
I would be distinctly consolable if the United States really was in decline and I have more legitimate grievances against that country than do The Guardian or the BBC, but it is still a country of incomparable vitality even as its moral, judicial soul atrophies and reeks. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
But she was clear about what she wanted and to the extent that I am consolable about the role I played, this is what consoles me: She was entitled to die her own death. ". From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Benedict: Can We Talk About Susan Sontag's Death and Then Maybe Our Own?] Reference
A long, long weeping, not consolable. From Wordnik.com. [Idylls of the King] Reference
I think she'll be consolable. From Wordnik.com. [The Rainbow and the Rose]
My family was beyond consolable. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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