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Definition: Cold Comfort |
Cold ComfortNoun1. Very limited consolation or empathy; "he told me that time heals all wounds but that was cold comfort to me". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discontent | Disappointment, mortification; cold comfort; regret; repining, taking on; Verb: heart-burning, heart-grief; querulousness; (lamentation); hypercriticism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cold Comfort Farm (1971) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cold comfort -- pretty well picked. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cold comfort farm | 20 |
cold comfort | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cold comfort"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Albanian | ngushëllim i vakët. (various references) | ||||||||||
Czech | slabá útìcha. (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | laiha lohdutus. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | schwacher Trost. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | sovány vigasz (crumb of comfort, dutch comfort), gyenge vigasz (dutch comfort). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oldcay omfortcay слабое утешение (dutch comfort). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-f-l-m-o-o-o-r-t" | |
-4 letters: comfort, morocco, tomfool. | |
-5 letters: doctor, formol, rococo, tomcod. | |
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