comforting

adj, noun — 2 senses

comforting

adj

US /ˈkʌm.fɚ.tɪŋ/ · UK /ˈkʌm.fə.tɪŋ/

1

Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.

Your comforting words help ease my mind.
It's comforting to know that I've always got my Mum when things go wrong.

Synonyms: easeful, besoothing, cheering, comforting, consoling, encouraging, inspiriting, reassuring, soothing
Antonyms: alarming
Derived terms: comfortingly, comfortingness, uncomforting
Hypernyms: moving, pleasant
Coordinate terms: enjoyable, gladdening

comforting

noun

1

The act of giving comfort.

Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea[…]1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England, page 269:

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