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Cold Comfort

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Noun

1. cold comfort

very limited consolation or empathy

Example Sentences:
'he told me that time heals all wounds but that was cold comfort to me'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cold Comfort

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little or no comfort
noun
little or minimal consolation
These figures may look good on paper but are cold comfort to the islanders themselves.
We welcome all steps to safeguard shipbuilding jobs in the long term, but that will be cold comfort to those workers and their families who will lose their livelihoods.

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Cold Comfort

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little or no comfort at all

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cold Comfort

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n.
Extremely limited empathy, sympathy, or encouragement: "I told him that the years would pass with remarkable celerity, but that appeared to be cold comfort" (Nelson Bryant).

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