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comfort English

Meaning comfort meaning

What does comfort mean?
Definitions in simple English

comfort Noun

— Comfort is a feeling in your body that there are no problems. Enjoying the comfort of his own bed, he soon fell asleep. This temperature may be too cold for comfort in a regularly used living room. — If you give comfort, you help someone to feel better. Though it is a difficult time, you can at least take comfort in the fact that you are not alone. He thought that he should touch her and offer her comfort. — A comfort is something that makes you feel good. The comforts of home are not available when you're camping.

comfort Verb

— If you comfort a person or animal, you help them to feel better. Jane tried to comfort Flora by telling her about her own problems at school. The night was dark, but the child was comforted by the sound of the TV in the other room.

comfort

— noun a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment — noun (= comfortableness) a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain he is a man who enjoys his comfort she longed for the comfortableness of her armchair — verb give moral or emotional strength to — noun (= consolation) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction his presence was a consolation to her — verb (= ease) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate ease the pain in your legs — noun satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing his friendship was a comfort a padded chair was one of the room's few comforts — noun assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal it gave comfort to the enemy — noun (= ease) a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state a life of luxury and ease he had all the material comforts of this world — noun (= quilt) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

Synonyms comfort synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as comfort?

comfort English » English

console ease solace consolation soothe convenience cheer rest pleasure calm support pacify luxury relieve relief happiness comfortableness prosperity encourage appease relaxation coziness cosiness well-being sympathy hearten health encouragement abundance wellbeing warmth repose reassure quilt quiet peace leisure joy contentment condole conciliate calming assuagement wheedle understanding tranquilize take care of sympathize succor solacement

Topics comfort topics

What do people use comfort to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive Sense of touch

Comfortable
Person Sense, perceive

Sense of touch
Person Life Stage of life Baby

Care for a baby
Language and thought Emotion Feel good

Happy
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Happy

Relaxed
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sad
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Show sympathy, support

Conjugation comfort conjugation

How do you conjugate comfort?

comfort · verb

Examples comfort examples

How do I use comfort in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He lives in comfort.
Jill was a great comfort to me when I was ill.
I live in comfort.
I want to live in comfort.
He worked day and night so that his family could live in comfort.
He tried to comfort her, but she kept crying.
She lives in comfort.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Mary tried to comfort Tom.
That was my only comfort.
They moved house in search of greater comfort and security.
Take comfort in that.
Everybody wants to live in comfort.
The high speed, high comfort electric train Minsk-Brest will depart in five minutes from the fourth track at the second platform.
She tried to comfort him, but he kept crying.
One may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.
She cried and cried, but nobody came to comfort her.
The eye doesn't see beyond its own comfort level.
There is some comfort in the emptiness of the sea, no past, no future.
Comfort Tom.

Movie subtitles

Is it to comfort the souls of those who died?
You need to wear it for a few hours each day, then report back to me with regard to comfort and the snugness of the fit.
Sallust is saddened by the loss of his friend Glaucus, and seeks comfort in wine.
Inga has found comfort in the great call of nursing, and destiny will that she is sent to care for the countess.
What comfort.
You'll be a comfort to me.
Not that I'm afraid of anything, but for my comfort.
After all, if that sort of mumbo jumbo gave him any comfort.
I know, and I can't tell you what comfort that thought gives me.
I shall look after you, and you will comfort me.
And now, out of the silence of the night, hath brought two of thy lonely children together, and sent me a friend to be a light to mine eyes and a comfort in time of trouble.
I want him to comfort someone who is about to die.
And I don't want that to happen because he shall need all the courage and comfort you can give him for a long time, I think.
Don't worry about our comfort.
We're turning Algeria into a modern country bringing comfort to the colonists and progress to the natives.
Comfort means different things to different people.
America's comfort to misunderstood wives.
All our thoughts will be for your comfort, milord.
Did you know the law. that any person who does knowingly receive, harbor, comfort. or succor a rebel is as guilty as if he himself bore arms?
No luxury, but simple comfort. Pay up Micawber! Pay up Micawber!
Our domestic comfort, quiet, the privacy, call them your own.
These men don't ask for comfort. They don't ask for safety.
It's unfortunate, but for my own comfort and peace, and certainly for yours, don't you think you might find some excuse not to come here any more?
You're a comfort.
I thought it meant comfort and security.
Things have been arranged for our comfort.
There's little we can do in any case, but we should at least comfort him.
It's really my own comfort I'm thinking of.
Now we'll go upstairs and we'll think about what should happen next in peace and comfort.
It's made you a hunted outlaw whenyoumighthave lived in comfort and security.
It's a prime comfort to look on faces that's friendly when a body's in such a muck of trouble.
It'll be a comfort to me to know that she has you.
This might be Ashley. and only strangers here to comfort him.
I will find comfort elsewhere.

News and current affairs

One hopes that this will lend comfort to him, and give a moral boost to Chinese who share his views.
At the other end, conservatism in many European countries has historically veered too close for comfort to right-wing extremism.
This level of annual borrowing is far too high for comfort.
In fact, stepping out of one's comfort zone may offer significant benefits.
It is to be hoped that it will not be overshadowed by calls in Congress for Japan to apologize more formally than it already has for the comfort women.
Block thinkers on each side give aid and comfort to block thinkers on the other side, and with each exchange they pull us closer toward an abyss.
While it has not produced clean and efficient government, there seems to be considerable comfort in the popular belief that, by working together, Pakistanis will find a way out of the mess in which the country finds itself.
Since the beginning of this epidemic, his main activity has been the distribution of medicine and moral comfort in the doomed villages of Henan.
Would you draw comfort from your country's impressive internal resilience and offset the deflationary winds blowing from the West; or would you play it safe and increase your country's precautionary reserves?
Few are eager to self-disrupt, a process that takes us out of our comfort zone, forcing us to confront our long-standing blind spots and unconscious biases and adopt a new mindset.
Although this may be challenging for investors, we should take comfort in the implications for the real economy.
Historical statistical relationships are perhaps cold comfort in a downturn that now seems so insidiously different from previous catastrophes. But they should not be dismissed.
So they comfort themselves with the thought that demands for democratization reflect Hong Kong's economic woes, nothing more.
A second factor is the false comfort we derive from seeing the parts of a system.
Certainly nothing could be achieved on a timetable that would offer any comfort to the other PIGS.
Singapore's humming economy, material comfort, and smooth efficiency seem to confirm the view of many that authoritarianism works better than democracy, at least in some parts of the world.
China may take comfort in remaining focused on non-core issues, because such an approach suggests tactical cooperation with India.
A key lesson from the Great Inflation of the 1970's is that central banks can't afford a false sense of comfort from any dichotomy between headline and core inflation.
Also, the US Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort will make port calls in a number of Latin countries.
Within Lebanon itself, Hezbollah is still strong, but its comfort level has declined.
While this abundance of offensiveness may comfort those concerned about freedom of expression, it does not give me any comfort as a European Muslim.
One comfort, perhaps, for the democrats is that right now China is failing to learn the Singaporean lesson, too.
South Koreans have often failed to acknowledge the number and intensity of statements about comfort women (who were forced to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers) and the amount of compensation on offer.

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