comfort
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English comfort, from Old French cunfort, confort, from the stem of Late Latin confortō. It replaced Old English frofor, Middle English frovre.
Inflected forms:
form: comforts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: comforts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: comforting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: comforted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: comforted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Contentment, ease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.
But all was in vain: For having ranged up and down the Woods for ſome days, without finding the leaſt comfort to their hungry deſires, they were forced to return again unto the River. […] At laſt they arrived at the Coaſt of the Sea, where they found ſome comfort and relief to their former miſeries, and alſo means to ſeek more.
How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur
gloss: Something that offers comfort.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Coordinate term: glimmer (2020s, neologism; a happy moment)
the comforts of home
gloss: A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We still have the spare tire? That's a comfort at least.
gloss: A cause of relief or satisfaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The outcome of the peace negotiations in Moscow in 1940 was a heavy blow to the young nation, but in the same time a great comfort: at least the independency was preserved.
gloss: To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Rob comforted Aaron because he was lost and very sad.
Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comfoꝛted me.
Light, above all things, excelleth in comforting the spirits of men.
gloss: To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: God's own testimony […] doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.
gloss: To assist or help; to aid.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: I […] cannot help the noble chevalier: / God comfort him in this necessity!
Synonyms: besoothe
cheer
comfort
console
solace
soothe
Antonyms: hurt
vex
Related words: pity
consolation
Derived words: cold comfort
comfortability
comfortable
comfortative
comfort break
comfort-eat
comfort eating
comfortfic
comfort fic
comfort food
comfortful
comfort girl
comfortize
comfortless
comfort letter
comfortment
comfort noise
comfort room
comfortsome
comfort station
comfort stone
comfort stop
comfort tone
comfortwear
comfort woman
comfort zone
creature comfort
discomfort
Dutch comfort
Job's comfort
Lawson comfort criterion
letter of comfort
lip comfort
miscomfort
thermal comfort
too close for comfort
uncomfort
comforter
comforting
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