| Consoling 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Console. 2. (a.) Adapted to console or comfort; cheering; as, this is consoling news. Thesaurus Entries animating, assuring, auspicious, bracing, bright with promise, brisk, cheerful, cheery, comforting, condolatory, condolent, condoling, consolatory, consoling, cordial, crisp, crispy, encouraging, energizing, enlivening, exhilarating, favorable, fresh, full of promise, glad, gladdening, heart-warming, heartening, hospitable, inspiring, inspiriting, invigorating, joyful, looking up, of good comfort, of promise, pregnant of good, promising, propitious, reassuring, refreshful, refreshing, regaling, relieving, rousing, stimulating, supportive, sympathetic, tonic, zestful, zesty |