solace

1. 1.

   give moral or emotional strength to

   Synonymscomfortsootheconsole

   Narrowercalmstill

Other forms of solace

plural

solaces·

past tense

solaced·

present participle

solacing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about solace

What does solace mean?

solace means "the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in solace?

solace has 2 syllables: so-lace. The stress falls on "so". In IPA it is /ˈsɑləs/.

What is another word for solace?

Close synonyms include consolation, solacement, solacement, consolation, comfort. 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 solace a common word?

solace is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.