Solace
noun
A comfort in a time of sadness, confusion, or disappointment.
My grandmother was a great solace to me after my father's death.
Often appears as...
- find solace
- source of solace
verb
To comfort someone in a time of sadness, confusion, or disappointment.
The kind words of a friend solaced me after my dog's death.
Often appears as...
- solace in
- solace with
noun
A comfort in a time of sadness, confusion, or disappointment.
My grandmother was a great solace to me after my father's death.
Often appears as...
- find solace
- source of solace
verb
To comfort someone in a time of sadness, confusion, or disappointment.
The kind words of a friend solaced me after my dog's death.
Often appears as...
- solace in
- solace with
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Support
Use 'solace' to express finding relief from emotional distress.
She found solace in her journal during the stressful times.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical
'Solace' usually refers to emotional comfort, not physical help.
Listening to music provided him solace, making him feel less lonely.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Contexts
Most appropriate in serious or reflective contexts, often related to loss or disappointment.
After the divorce, she sought solace in her friends.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Support
Use 'solace' to express finding relief from emotional distress.
She found solace in her journal during the stressful times.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical
'Solace' usually refers to emotional comfort, not physical help.
Listening to music provided him solace, making him feel less lonely.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Contexts
Most appropriate in serious or reflective contexts, often related to loss or disappointment.
After the divorce, she sought solace in her friends.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Support
Use 'solace' to express finding relief from emotional distress.
She found solace in her journal during the stressful times.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical
'Solace' usually refers to emotional comfort, not physical help.
Listening to music provided him solace, making him feel less lonely.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Contexts
Most appropriate in serious or reflective contexts, often related to loss or disappointment.
After the divorce, she sought solace in her friends.
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A kinder, gentler...
In other words, hold your horses when you're coming to judge people. You don't necessarily know what someone's true value is. That is an unknown part of them, and we shouldn't behave as though it is known. There is another source of solace and comfort for all this. When we think about failing in life, when we think about failure,
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Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
Now, some of you are probably just desperately clawing for some solace in the idea that these things are oddities of the natural world, that they are outliers, and that point of view is understandable, because by their nature, parasites are quite small and they spend a lot of their time
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Learning from past...
countryside a penthouse in the city sailboats speedboats he had servants to answer any whim and he had a family who loved him deeply and yet years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement he could find no solace in
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3 ways to make better...
Organizing your wardrobe or your desk are probably not the most pressing problems in your life. Sometimes the problems we have to solve are simply very, very hard. But even in those cases, computer science can offer some strategies and perhaps some solace.
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Inside a Retirement Home...
what no juice oh I'll come back and get you okay people laugh I can talk to them like they're really people and I really do not give them that respect they deserve that respect and I give them that and I think it helps give me solace
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Grief and love in the...
I believe most likely most of you here have lost someone. And I have found it a genuine comfort, a solace, to know that we aren't the only beings on this earth who feel love and grief. And I think this is important.
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Lessons from death row...
rather than sending them to the execution chamber. Why has that happened? It hasn't happened because of a dissolution of popular support for the death penalty. Death penalty opponents take great solace in the fact
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Joseph Ravenell: How...
where you get your hair cut or your beard trimmed. No, it's much more than that. Historically, the barbershop has been a safe haven for black men. It's a place where we go for friendship, solidarity and solace.
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My Daughter, Malala PIPE...
I'll be okay. Please don't worry." She was a solace for us, and she consoled us. Dear brothers and sisters, we learned from her how to be resilient in the most difficult times,
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Planet Earth: A...
and in these extraordinary times there is one thing that can offer solace to everyone the wonder of the natural world
Video examples
A kinder, gentler...
In other words, hold your horses when you're coming to judge people. You don't necessarily know what someone's true value is. That is an unknown part of them, and we shouldn't behave as though it is known. There is another source of solace and comfort for all this. When we think about failing in life, when we think about failure,
Video examples
Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
Now, some of you are probably just desperately clawing for some solace in the idea that these things are oddities of the natural world, that they are outliers, and that point of view is understandable, because by their nature, parasites are quite small and they spend a lot of their time
Video examples
Learning from past...
countryside a penthouse in the city sailboats speedboats he had servants to answer any whim and he had a family who loved him deeply and yet years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement he could find no solace in
Video examples
3 ways to make better...
Organizing your wardrobe or your desk are probably not the most pressing problems in your life. Sometimes the problems we have to solve are simply very, very hard. But even in those cases, computer science can offer some strategies and perhaps some solace.
Video examples
Inside a Retirement Home...
what no juice oh I'll come back and get you okay people laugh I can talk to them like they're really people and I really do not give them that respect they deserve that respect and I give them that and I think it helps give me solace
Video examples
Grief and love in the...
I believe most likely most of you here have lost someone. And I have found it a genuine comfort, a solace, to know that we aren't the only beings on this earth who feel love and grief. And I think this is important.
Video examples
Lessons from death row...
rather than sending them to the execution chamber. Why has that happened? It hasn't happened because of a dissolution of popular support for the death penalty. Death penalty opponents take great solace in the fact
Video examples
Joseph Ravenell: How...
where you get your hair cut or your beard trimmed. No, it's much more than that. Historically, the barbershop has been a safe haven for black men. It's a place where we go for friendship, solidarity and solace.
Video examples
My Daughter, Malala PIPE...
I'll be okay. Please don't worry." She was a solace for us, and she consoled us. Dear brothers and sisters, we learned from her how to be resilient in the most difficult times,
Video examples
Planet Earth: A...
and in these extraordinary times there is one thing that can offer solace to everyone the wonder of the natural world
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Quote examples
Natalie Portman
American Actress
Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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Leslie Jamison
American Novelist
Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.
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Sam Taylor-Johnson
English Director
At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
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Jean Nidetch
American Businesswoman
Food is not your remedy for problems. Food is not going to change your life. If you are lonely, food is not going to be your company. If you are sad, food is not going to give you solace.
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George Crabbe
English Poet
With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
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Harry Reid
American Politician
So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.
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Greg Mottola
American Director
When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.
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John Burns
English Activist
Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
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Oscar
Brazilian Footballer
Before every game I pray, I find solace. It helps me to relax and prepare.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
American Novelist
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.
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Natalie Portman
American Actress
Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
Quote examples
Leslie Jamison
American Novelist
Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.
Quote examples
Sam Taylor-Johnson
English Director
At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
Quote examples
Jean Nidetch
American Businesswoman
Food is not your remedy for problems. Food is not going to change your life. If you are lonely, food is not going to be your company. If you are sad, food is not going to give you solace.
Quote examples
George Crabbe
English Poet
With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.
Quote examples
Harry Reid
American Politician
So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.
Quote examples
Greg Mottola
American Director
When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.
Quote examples
John Burns
English Activist
Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
Quote examples
Oscar
Brazilian Footballer
Before every game I pray, I find solace. It helps me to relax and prepare.
Quote examples
Mary Roberts Rinehart
American Novelist
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.
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