comforting

[kuhm-fer-ting]

adjective

1. affording comfort or solace.

Other Word Forms

• comfortingly adverb
• uncomforting adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of comforting¹

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English; comfort + -ing ²

Example Sentences

Catholicism is the faith I was baptized in, the one I embraced as a teen and that’s the bedrock for my moral code of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

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The result was a comforting yet bold intersection of Mexican heritage, nostalgia and streetwear.

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Retiring to New Jersey, with an unlisted number, Howie Hubler took with him the comforting sense that he was not the biggest fool at the table.

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The arms were new and unfamiliar, but they were also gentle and comforting.

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Nonetheless, DataTrek analysts recently offered what they viewed as comforting data points around Big Tech trends.

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