Perhaps you avoid babysitting your baby brother because you're worried that if he starts to cry, you won’t be able to console him or make him feel better. Or maybe you just hate changing diapers.
To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.
Noun
housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
Noun
an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture); "the bust of Napoleon stood on a console"
Noun
a scientific instrument consisting of displays and an input device that an operator can use to monitor and control a system (especially a computer system)
Noun
a small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall
Verb
give moral or emotional strength to
v. t.
To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the
grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.
n.
A bracket whose projection is not more than half its
height.
n.
Any small bracket; also, a console table.
Console
>And empty heads console with empty sound.
I am much consoled by the reflection that the religion of Christ has been attacked in vain by all the wits and philosophers, and its triumph has been complete.
Console
>To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.
A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.
Usage Examples
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
There's definitely space for uniqueness in a home console.
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Other Usage ExamplesImagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
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