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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).


 
 
Idioms: cold comfort

Slight or no consolation. For example, He can't lend us his canoe but will tell us where to rent one--that's cold comfort. The adjective cold was being applied to comfort in this sense by the early 1300s, and Shakespeare used the idiom numerous times.


 
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: very limited consolation or empathy


 
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