silver lining

1. 1.

   a consoling aspect of a difficult situation

   “every cloud has a silver lining”

   “look on the bright side of it”

   Synonymsbright side

   Broaderconsolation

Questions about silver lining

What does silver lining mean?

silver lining means "a consoling aspect of a difficult situation".

What is another word for silver lining?

Close synonyms include bright side. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is silver lining a common word?

silver lining is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.