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| Main Entry: | console |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | relieve, comfort |
| Synonyms: | animate, assuage, buck up*, calm, cheer, encourage, gladden, lift, solace, soothe, tranquilize, condole with, express sympathy, inspirit, untrouble, upraise |
| Antonyms: | agitate, annoy, antagonize, depress, discourage, disturb, hurt, sadden, trouble, upset, dispirit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | comfort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make to feel better |
| Synonyms: | abate, aid, allay, alleviate, ameliorate, assist, assuage, bolster, buck up*, calm, cheer, compose, condole, confirm, console, delight, divert, ease, encourage, enliven, free, gladden, hearten, help, invigorate, mitigate, nourish, reassure, refresh, relieve, remedy, revive, salve, soften, solace, soothe, strengthen, stroke, succor, support, sustain, sympathize, uphold, commiserate with, grant respite, inspirit, lighten burden, make well, put at ease, quiet fears, reanimate, revitalize, upraise |
| Antonyms: | aggravate, annoy, bother, distress, exasperate, hurt, irritate, provoke, torment, torture, trouble, vex |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | commiserate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | listen to woes of another |
| Synonyms: | ache, compassionate, condole, console, feel, pity, sympathize, feel for, have mercy, share sorrow |
| Antonyms: | be indifferent, turn away |
| Main Entry: | hearten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise someone's spirits |
| Synonyms: | animate, arouse, assure, buck up, buoy, cheer, comfort, console, embolden, encourage, energize, enliven, incite, inspire, rally, reassure, rouse, steel, stimulate, stir, strengthen, inspirit, revivify |
| Antonyms: | bring down, depress, discourage, dishearten |
| Main Entry: | ledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shelf |
| Synonyms: | bar, bench, bracket, console, edge, jut, mantle, offset, path, projection, reef, ridge, rim, route, step, strip, tier, track, trail, walk, way, berm, sill |
| Main Entry: | pity |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feel sorry for; spare |
| Synonyms: | ache*, be sorry for, be sympathetic, bleed for, comfort, commiserate, condole, console, feel for, feel with, forgive, give quarter, grant amnesty, grieve with, have compassion, have mercy on, identify with, lament with, pardon, put out of one's misery, relent, reprieve, show forgiveness, show sympathy, solace, soothe, sympathize, take pity on, understand, weep for |
| Antonyms: | disdain, scorn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quiet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make silent, calm |
| Synonyms: | allay, ameliorate, appease, assuage, becalm, button one's lip, calm down, can it, choke, clam up, compose, console, cool it, cool out, dummy up, fix up, gag, gratify, hold it down, hush, ice*, inactivate, lull, moderate, mollify, muffle, muzzle, pacify, palliate, patch things up, please, quieten, reconcile, relax, satisfy, settle, shush, shut up, silence, slack, smooth, soft-pedal*, soften, soothe, square, squash, squelch, still, stroke, subdue, take the bite out of, tranquilize |
| Notes: | quiet (noun) is the absence of sound - (verb) to make calm, still, or quiet - (adjective) free of noise or uproar or making little if any sound; quite means to the greatest extent or actually, really, or truly |
| Antonyms: | turn up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reassure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | restore confidence to |
| Synonyms: | assure, bolster, brace, buoy, cheer, comfort, console, convince, encourage, give a lift, give confidence, guarantee, hearten, inspire, inspirit, perk up, pick up*, put one's mind to rest, relieve, snap one out of it |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dishearten, unnerve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | revive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | start again; bring back to life |
| Synonyms: | animate, arouse, awaken, bounce back*, brighten, bring around*, cheer, comfort, console, encourage, energize, enliven, exhilarate, gladden, invigorate, overcome, please, quicken, rally, recover, refresh, rejuvenate, rekindle, relieve, renew, renovate, repair, restore, resuscitate, rouse, solace, strengthen, touch up*, breathe new life into, bring to, come around*, come to life, enkindle, inspirit, make whole, reanimate, recondition, resurrect, revitalize, snap out of it, spring up, wake up |
| Antonyms: | destroy, kill, suppress |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shelf |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jutting, flat area or piece |
| Synonyms: | bank, bracket, console, counter, cupboard, ledge, mantle, rack, reef, ridge, rock, shallow, shoal, mantelpiece |
| Main Entry: | solace |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give comfort, peace |
| Synonyms: | allay, alleviate, buck up, cheer, comfort, console, mitigate, soften, soothe, condole with, upraise |
| Antonyms: | trouble, upset, worry |
| Main Entry: | soothe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | calm, ease |
| Synonyms: | allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, balm, butter up*, calm down, cheer, compose, console, cool, help, hush, lighten, lull, make up, mitigate, mollify, pacify, quiet, relieve, settle, soften, square, still, stroke, subdue, tranquilize, unburden, becalm, cool off, dulcify, make nice, patch things up, play up to, pour oil on, quieten, smooth down, take the edge off, take the sting out, untrouble |
| Antonyms: | agitate, distress, upset, worry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | condole |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sympathize |
| Synonyms: | comfort, commiserate, console, pity, soothe |
| Main Entry: | keyboard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | row of keys |
| Synonyms: | console, manual, piano, blacks and whites, claviature, clavier, ivories, the eighty-eight |
| Main Entry: | control panel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instrument panel |
| Synonyms: | console, panel, control board |
| Main Entry: | feel sorry for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feel compassion for |
| Synonyms: | bleed for, comfort, commiserate, condole with, console, empathize with, express sympathy, feel for, grieve with, have mercy on, lament for, open one's heart, pity, sympathize, sympathize with |
| Main Entry: | instrument panel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | control board of machine |
| Synonyms: | console, control panel, dash, dashboard, mixer, cockpit console, control desk, instrument board, jack field, master control desk |
| Main Entry: | cheer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make someone feel happier |
| Synonyms: | animate, brighten, buck up*, buoy, comfort, console, elate, elevate, embolden, encourage, enliven, exhilarate, gladden, hearten, help, incite, perk up, pick up, solace, steel, strengthen, uplift, warm, brace up, give a lift, inspirit, let the sun shine in, put on cloud nine, put on top of the world, snap out of it, upraise |
| Antonyms: | bring down, depress, dishearten, make unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | encourage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stimulate spiritually |
| Synonyms: | animate, applaud, boost, brighten, buck up*, buoy, cheer, cheer up, comfort, console, embolden, energize, enliven, excite, exhilarate, fortify, galvanize, gladden, goad, hearten, incite, inspire, instigate, praise, prick, push, rally, reassure, refresh, restore, rouse, spur, steel, stir, strengthen, sway, enhearten, give shot in arm, inspirit, prop up, psych up, revitalize, revivify |
| Antonyms: | dampen, deject, depress, deter, discourage, dissuade, dispirit, uninspire |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | relieve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make less painful; let up on |
| Synonyms: | abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, break, brighten, calm, comfort, console, cure, decrease, diminish, divert, dull, ease, free, interrupt, lighten, mitigate, moderate, mollify, palliate, qualify, quiet, relax, salve, slacken, soften, solace, soothe, subdue, take load off one's chest, take load off one's mind, temper, vary |
| Antonyms: | harm, hurt, injure, pain |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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