solacenoun [ S or U ]
uk/ˈsɒl.ɪs/us/ˈsɑː.lɪs/literaryhelp and comfort when you are feeling sad or worried:
When his wife left him, he found solace in the bottle (= drank alcohol).
Music was a great solace to me.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Sympathy & compassion
- a good listener idiom
- a shoulder to cry on idiom
- aw
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- better luck next time idiom
- cloud
- feel for sb
- fellow feeling
- go out to sb
- hard luck! idiom
- hard/tough cheese! idiom
- pity
- poor
- relate
- relate to sb
- sad
- sensitive
- shoulder
- sympathy vote
- understanding
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solaceverb [ T ]
uk/ˈsɒl.ɪs/us/ˈsɑː.lɪs/literaryto give help and comfort to someone when they are feeling sad or worried
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Sympathy & compassion
- a good listener idiom
- a shoulder to cry on idiom
- aw
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- better luck next time idiom
- cloud
- feel for sb
- fellow feeling
- go out to sb
- hard luck! idiom
- hard/tough cheese! idiom
- pity
- poor
- relate
- relate to sb
- sad
- sensitive
- shoulder
- sympathy vote
- understanding
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