comforting

comparative more comforting · superlative most comforting

1. Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.

   Your comforting words help ease my mind.

   1 more example

   It's comforting to know that I've always got my Mum when things go wrong.

   Synonyms: easeful, grateful, besoothing, cheering, consoling, encouraging, inspiriting, reassuring

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of comfort

plural comfortings

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