comfort

Meaning

Noun

1. Contentment, ease.
2. Something that offers comfort.
3. A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
4. A cause of relief or satisfaction.

Verb

1. To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
2. (obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
3. (obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.

Synonyms

console

ease

solace

consolation

soothe

convenience

cheer

pleasure

rest

calm

luxury

support

pacify

relief

happiness

comfortableness

relieve

encourage

appease

prosperity

relaxation

cosiness

coziness

sympathy

encouragement

abundance

well-being

hearten

health

⚕️

joy

😂

contentment

calming

quiet

quilt

assuagement

reassure

warmth

leisure

wellbeing

repose

conciliate

condole

peace

☮️

tranquilize

pleasantness

comforter

coax

restfulness

solacement

puff

bring relief

commiseration

amenity

mollify

delight

satisfaction

empathy

assuage

compassion

accommodation

gladden

assistance

good health

gratification

brace

pat

take care of

help

sympathize

snugness

entertain

calm down

succor

wheedle

alleviation

understanding

quieten

endure

enjoy

enjoying

enjoyment

entice

entreat

erst

exaltation

expectation

explain

facilitate

facility

family

👪

favour

felicity

field

flight

✈️

flock

flush

fondle

fortify

fulfillment

gaggle

glory

grist

gulp

guts

hand

✋

happy

😀

harem

heal

herd

hive

homeliness

hope

induce

inspire

intrigue

invite

kennel

kindle

kindness

knot

🪢

leash

lift

luster

mettle

mettled

mitigate

mob

modillion

murder

mustering

nerve

nest

niceness

nurse

nurture

pack

paddling

palliate

palliation

pander

parliament

peacefulness

persuade

pity

placate

please

plump

pod

pounce

press

pride

profit

prop

propitiate

put up

raft

raise

rear

reassurance

relax

relaxing

relent

remedy

resort

revive

rock

🪨

rookery

rout

salve

salvo

satisfy

school

🏫

sense of well-being

shiver

shoal

shrewdness

shush

skein

skulk

sleuth

sloth

🦥

soothing

sounder

spaciousness

span

splendor

sprag

stir up

string

🪢

stud

subsidy

subvention

suffer

sustain

swallow

swarm

team

tempt

tend

tiding

tittering

touch

toughness

train

🚋

tribe

trip

troop

unburden

unwinding

uplift

utility

watch over

wedge

welfare

harras

be at ease

be relaxed

clowder

make happy

make peaceful

Please

prevail upon

pass the time

stick to it

feeling at home

be diverted

forget one’s worries

feel relieved

conveniency

reinforcement

stroke

wellness

allayment

have a sense of relief

complancence

murmuration

tranquilise

complete ease

head trip

self-gratification

lessen the loneliness

pleasureableness

prevent loneliness

hirsel

cete

coziness

cosiness

back

🔙

homeyness

abet

advise

affluence

allay

alleviate

allowance

amuse

amusement

army

ascension

assist

backing

backstay

band

barrel

barren

battery

🔋

bed

🛏️

benefit

be sorry

bevy

bike

🚲

blessedness

boar

🐗

boost

bring up

brood

building

bunch

bury

business

busyness

cajole

calming down

care for

carefree

caress

cartload

cheer up

cherish

chowder

circle

⭕

clamour

cloud

☁️

cluster

clutter

coalition

cold comfort

colony

comfortable

comforting

commiserate with

company

compensate

complacency

condolence

content

contribution

conveniences

convince

cool

🆒

corps

cosy

countenance

covey

cozy

creature

cuddle

dandle

delectation

disburden

diversion

drift

drove

easiness

embolden

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkʌm.fət/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: comforten

Inherited from Middle English: comfort

In summary

*The verb is from Middle English comforten, from Old French conforter, from Late Latin confortō (“to strengthen greatly”), itself from Latin con- (“together”) + fortis (“strong”).
*The noun is from Middle English comfort, from Old French cunfort, confort, from the stem of Late Latin confortō. It replaced Old English frofor, Middle English frovre.

Sentences

I had a word of comfort to offer here .