Comfort
Meaning of Comfort
- a state of physical ease and freedom from pain or constraint.
there is room for four people to travel in comfort
- the easing or alleviation of a person's feelings of grief or distress.
a few words of comfort
they should take comfort that help is available
- a warm quilt.
- ease the grief or distress of.
the victim was comforted by friends before being taken to hospital
Middle English (as a noun, in the senses ‘strengthening, support, consolation’; as a verb, in the senses ‘strengthen, give support, console’): from Old French confort (noun), conforter (verb), from late Latin confortare ‘strengthen’, from com- (expressing intensive force) + Latin fortis ‘strong’. The sense ‘something producing physical ease’ arose in the mid 17th century.
Information about Comfort
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Hyphenation of Comfort
Com-fort
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- Comfort is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Comfort synonyms
Meaning comfortableness:
Meaning consolation:
Meaning ease:
Meaning soothe:
Meaning an expression of sympathy, especially on the occasion of the death of a person's relative or close friend:
Meaning feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune:
Meaning sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; compassion:
Meaning the action of helping someone to do something:
Meaning approval, encouragement, or comfort:
Meaning a feeling of reassurance and relaxation following release from anxiety or distress:
Meaning a right to cross or otherwise use someone else's land for a specified purpose:
Meaning the action or process of making suffering, deficiency, or a problem less severe:
Meaning the action of removing someone's doubts or fears:
Meaning a shout of encouragement, praise, or joy:
Meaning make glad:
Comfort antonyms
Meaning intense sorrow, especially caused by someone's death:
Words that rhyme with Comfort
Fort, fort, piedfort, LeFort, Roquefort, Stonefort, contrefort, piefort, roquefort, countereffort, effort, overeffort, preeffort, Frankfort, frankfort, Belfort, Wolfort, hillfort, Camfort, comfort, discomfort, miscomfort, recomfort, uncomfort, confort, enfort, Superfort, counterfort, Antesfort, Garardsfort, Montfort, Mountfort, montfort, outfort, Beaufort, beaufort