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Definition of Cold comfort
1. Noun. Very limited consolation or empathy. "He told me that time heals all wounds but that was cold comfort to me"
Definition of Cold comfort
1. Noun. (idiomatic) Much less reassurance, consolation, aid, or pleasure than one needs or desires. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cold Comfort
Literary usage of Cold comfort
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1893)
"... and his white hair fell, like a shroud, around him. CHAPTER XLI. cold comfort.
ALL things being full of flaw, all things being full of holes ..."
2. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1890)
"Who'll buy ! here's goodly gear, The lamentable ballad of ' cold comfort,' All
on a broadsheet printed plain. The knight, And how they parted, ..."
3. The Secret Woman by Eden Phillpotts (1905)
"CHAPTER X cold comfort NATURE has ordered that the transports of all suffering
shall be intermittent, else every human mind noble enough to feel ..."
4. Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributed to the New York Tribune from by Charles Taber Congdon (1869)
"March 22,18C2 cold comfort. Do OTJE readers remember a newspaper entitled The
Atlanta Confederacy?—a journal which has, even in gloomy times, furnished us ..."
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