0 making or intended to make someone who is sad or disappointed feel better:
His wife and his parents would try to find the right consolatory words.
Some were intended for the mourning relatives and belong to a long tradition of sending consolatory letters or poetry to the bereaved.
Functioning both as narratives and allegories, these vases have a consolatory effect by presenting a fortiori tragic examples of human suffering.
In actual fact, it seems increasingly less consolatory seeing as, three years later, very little headway has been made towards attaining that objective.
It was charming and mellifluous as always—a speech which was explanatory, deprecatory, mitigatory and consolatory, yet to me, at any rate, not wholly satisfactory.
The consolatory payment does not, however, preclude a request for more generous compensation for worry and distress.
