consolable

Able to soothe

Consolable describes someone capable of being comforted or soothed after grief or disappointment.

The word appears most often in its negative form: an inconsolable widow, inconsolable grief.

When consolable does appear, it typically suggests that comfort is possible, even if difficult: She was distraught but consolable.

emotional

comforted

Given emotional relief

pacified · solaced · heartened · encouraged · cheered · uplifted · buoyed · gladdened · appeased · placated

receptive

responsive

Quick to react

approachable · accessible · amenable · manageable · persuadable · touchable · sensitive · soft-hearted · tender-hearted · vulnerable

recoverable

healable

Able to recover

restorable · salvageable · remediable · rectifiable · fixable · retrievable · reboundable · resilient

Opposites
capacity for comfort

consolableinconsolable

Unable to be comforted

unconsolable · disconsolate · beyond comfort · desolate · forlorn

Family

inconsolable, inconsolably

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G