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- Dictionarycomforting/ˈkʌmfətɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. serving to alleviate a person's feelings of grief or distress: "we would like to thank our family and friends for their support and their comforting words"
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Learn the verb and noun meanings of comfort, as well as synonyms, examples, and word history. Comfort can mean to give strength and hope, to ease grief or trouble, or to provide satisfaction or pleasure.
Comforting is an adjective that means making you feel less sad or worried. Learn how to pronounce it, see examples and find synonyms and related words in different languages.
Learn the meaning of comfort as a noun and a verb, with synonyms, collocations and examples. Find out how to use comfort in different contexts, such as pain, sadness, money and life.
Comforting definition: affording comfort or solace.. See examples of COMFORTING used in a sentence.
Learn the meaning of comforting, an adjective that describes something that makes you feel less worried or unhappy. See synonyms, pronunciation, collocations, sentences and word frequency of comforting.
If you comfort someone, you make them feel less worried, unhappy, or upset, for example by saying kind things to them.
a cause or matter of relief or satisfaction: The patient's recovery was a comfort to the doctor. a state of ease and satisfaction of bodily wants, with freedom from pain and anxiety: He is a man who enjoys his comfort. something that promotes such a state: His wealth allows him to enjoy a high degree of comfort.
