comforting
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- comfortingly adverb
- uncomforting adjective
Etymology
Origin of comforting
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English; comfort + -ing 2
Example Sentences
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There was something comforting about the volume, even more so than the copy he had read a hundred times.
From Literature
In the morning, you may feel the sharpness of toothpaste, hear and feel water running in the shower, smell shampoo, and later take in the comforting scent of freshly brewed coffee.
From Science Daily
After the roar of the earthquake, the silence seemed both comforting and ominous.
From Literature
"I think it makes it less intimidating. When we're looking into the graves when they dig them, they are quite comforting, in a very strange way. They're very inviting."
From BBC
Caring for him is so exhausting that she often retreats to “the comforting quiet” of the cell—which, in a perverse way, affords her a kind of homecoming to the country she left behind.
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