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Comfort

[kuhm-fert]

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verb (used with object)

to soothe, console, or reassure; bring cheer to: They tried to comfort her after her loss.

to make physically comfortable.

Obsolete. to aid; support or encourage.

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noun

relief in affliction; consolation; solace: Her presence was a comfort to him.

a feeling of relief or consolation: Her forgiveness afforded him great comfort.

a person or thing that gives consolation: She was a great comfort to him.

a cause or matter of relief or satisfaction: The patient's recovery was a comfort to the doctor.

a state of ease and satisfaction of bodily wants, with freedom from pain and anxiety: He is a man who enjoys his comfort.

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something that promotes such a state: His wealth allows him to enjoy a high degree of comfort.

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Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. a comforter or quilt.

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Obsolete. strengthening aid; assistance.

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Origin:
1175–1225; (v.) Middle English comfortien, variant of confortien, conforten < Anglo-French, Old French conforter < Late Latin confortāre to strengthen, equivalent to con- con- + -fortāre verbal derivative of Latin fortis strong; (noun) Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French, noun derivative of the v.

Related forms

com·fort·less, adjective

un·com·fort·ed, adjective

Can be confused: comfit, comfort (see synonym note at the current entry).

Synonyms
1. pacify, calm, solace, gladden. Comfort, console, relieve, soothe imply assuaging sorrow, worry, discomfort, or pain. To comfort is to lessen the sadness or sorrow of someone and to strengthen by inspiring with hope and restoring a cheerful outlook: to comfort a despairing person. Console, a more formal word, means to make grief or distress seem lighter, by means of kindness and thoughtful attentions: to console a bereaved parent. Relieve means to lighten, lessen, or remove pain, trouble, discomfort, or hardship: to relieve a needy person. Soothe means to pacify or calm: to soothe a child. 1, 2. ease. 8. See ease.

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Everyone should find their comfort zone with technology and work within their strengths and personal styles.

Eeriness is not quite the same thing as comfort level, likeability or even strangeness.

Trees bring both comfort and measurable benefits to urban environments.

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Everyone should find their comfort zone with technology and work within their strengths and personal styles.

Eeriness is not quite the same thing as comfort level, likeability or even strangeness.

Trees bring both comfort and measurable benefits to urban environments.

Further comfort is provided by epidemiological data showing no link between cell phones and cancer.

These soft dumplings cooked in maple syrup must have made for good comfort food after a hard day of labor.

Serve atop mashed potatoes for a satisfying comfort meal.

It's either the ultimate in couch comfort or a totally bizarre idea dreamed up by a pair of designers obsessed with neuroscience.

The way you convey your professional comfort in the interview itself is through your discussion of all the things you are doing.

Of course that is cold comfort to the creditors who have lost money.

We believe you find real culture only when you get out of your comfort zone.

The inclination to make categorical judgments-along with a person's comfort in making them-can have important implications.

For some of us, there is comfort in knowing that other great persons have also suffered from cacography.

Choose from a dozen great recipes for the ultimate comfort food.

You're not going to want to race on it, but for a performance bike with comfort to spare, it would totally work.

All of that will take this introvert pretty far outside his comfort zone.

Often attractiveness comes from confidence and comfort in one's own skin.

The warm wool is renowned for its extremely soft hand, providing warmth and comfort without the itch of lower-quality fibers.

As anyone who has written by hand over the course of a lengthy sitting knows, comfort can quickly become an issue.

Rather, travelers should visit the country and provide some sense of comfort to locals rather than leaving them feel isolated.

Thanksgiving dinner is comfort food at its finest, so the wines must be comforting too.

Several small geometric changes combine in a radically different bicycle from the standard diamond-frame comfort bike.

If only recognition and comfort blazed behind successful scientists as it did behind successful entertainers.

China's macroeconomists, if not its consumers, can take some comfort from the nature of the inflation.

After spotting paw prints along his path, he thinks they might be a little too close for comfort.

Has anyone considered using the space shuttle as a means of getting to the moon in relative comfort.

Use sweat equity for tasks in your comfort zone, and delegate the rest.

These are cool earphones that are still moderately priced for such excellent performance and customized comfort.

Now they can grieve and receive comfort and go on with life.

The speck of comfort for some is the hint that the predicament of the budget airlines could be worse still.

As the pace of solar system exploration picks up, some of the work is being done in the comfort of our own planet.

The casual comfort of the two chairs seems to invite relaxation and intimate conversation.

No matter how bad new technology is, the old will always be there to comfort us.

But this is little comfort to some of the students studying there.

The opening-weekend figure that the league should take greater comfort from is not scoring, but attendance.

During this holiday season it might bring some comfort.

Our elegant take on the potpie provides the ultimate comfort for winter weather and memories of the film's harrowing tale.

She tries reciting her school lessons to settle her nerves, but practicing does not provide her with any comfort.

Flavorful and warming, a steaming bowl of minestrone soup makes great comfort food for the cooler months.

Now you can follow your dog from the comfort of the nearest browser.

Those patches of concentrated green are a psychological comfort.

Thanks to all the great online maps with street views you can see the world from the comfort of your home anytime.

When you're done, you can order up the check and call a cab, all from the comfort of your table.

In one example, a farmer looks over his high-tech irrigation system from the comfort of a mountainside control globule.

Taking the time to add a few extra characters outside your comfort zone can increase the number of possibilities exponentially.

Women are taking a vacation from other uniforms to enjoy the cool comfort of a summer dress.

As an instructor, stepping outside the comfort of my own teaching style is a daunting task.

Explore longer in comfort and style with these handcrafted leather shoes.

The fossil record gives me a great deal of comfort in difficult times.

Such games allow virtually anyone to be a heroic monster slayer without leaving the comfort of their couch.

However, this is my opinion, and backed only by my comfort level.

Men's pants and shorts for comfort and convenience on the.

Instinctively, her two-year-old tries to comfort her by offering his teddy bear to her.

It has the comfort and ambience of a four-star country house hotel.

Camera and gear bags that do double-duty and don't skimp on travel comfort or tech functionality.

One of the ultimate comfort foods is made even better with a cheesy-biscuit topping in place of the typical pastry crust topping.

The advantages of shoulder straps don't end with their comfort.

For the dying, dignity and comfort often means prescribing powerful drugs.

These airport-friendly, slip-on shoes advertise their comfort with an outer elastic gore that weaves through a padded tongue.

They are able to provide comfort and guidance when their children encounter stress, and help them forge appropriate responses.

The comfort of a warm bowl, the scent billowing from a savory sauce, and the toothsome bite of perfectly.

The problem is students rarely approach me during my office hrs, but hide behind the comfort of email.

Most of us think of our dogs as loving, loyal pets that provide us with comfort and companionship.

Despite their comfort with computers, professors and students struggled to adapt, officials say.

It will be no comfort to beaten-up bankers that their plight has spawned a mini-boom in publishing.

She had to decide between the comfort of a staff news job and the unknown of freelance photography.

Even family membership can result in more stress than comfort.

Professional sports teams are attempting at a furious rate to lure fans away from the comfort of their couches to live games.

But that is small comfort to the poor in many other countries where poverty has barely budged.

In other words, bring rain gear and know your comfort level with slick pavement.

But such figures are cold comfort for younger men who lack marriage prospects in their age groups.

Creamy and bacon-studded, this dinner is the ultimate quick, comfort food.

For those who dread the heat that climate change threatens to bring in coming decades, take comfort.

The whole comfort zone of the academic year is gone.

Today's surplus countries can take some comfort from the fact that they are not historical anomalies.

Notable for what they lack-driveways, parking lots-these hike-in chalets are backcountry comfort exemplified.

Try to imagine how much comfort a full wallet will be when you've got lung cancer, if you can.

Many feel uncomfortable providing aid and comfort to people who think.

But outing the naysayers would neither have brought comfort nor explained this peculiar aftermath.

It is a formula that buys the party short-term comfort at the expense of long-term instability.

These young people are more likely to look for solace and comfort in pot, and mutually re-enforce each other.

It also translates into supreme comfort during extended listening sessions.

For managers, vertical integration carries the uninviting prospect of forcing them to operate outside their comfort zones.

There's a certain comfort in knowing that others have made the same discoveries and use the same approaches.

Most people desire a certain level of physical and psychological comfort.

Quick and easy to put on and take off and ergonomically designed for comfort.

And for an year did he wooed her with his shekels and comfort her with his checkbook and she endured him.

The size of the cut also brings more fear than comfort.

The finer things are there for the sake of comfort and to be enjoyed for their aesthetic value.

So the next time you lose at either, take comfort in the fact that a computer may not have been able to do much better.

It should make everyone feel a little more comfort on the road.

It may be some comfort that, in a long and illustrious career, this incident will be but a ping of regret on your register.

And if prices fall too far for comfort the taps will be turned off on the fresh supplies they have offered.

Two rooms are darkened, for the comfort of hibernating bats.

After all, religion is one of the great sources of psychological comfort and social solidarity in times of widespread insecurity.

The need to build a new place to live every few weeks trumps familiar domestic comfort as a promoter of social cohesion.

Many human victims simply get too close for the snake's comfort without realizing it's there-until the strike.

All of this development was probably done in the comfort of his coal-driven, steam-heated office.

And rather than speak in one outraged voice, it is giving these thugs the comfort of mixed messages.

It is odious if you confront what it takes from freedom and comfort.

So they naturally turn to their old buddies for comfort and advice.

Deprived of the protection and comfort of their mother's body, babies start to fuss.

The broadcasts not only rile dictators, but comfort their beleaguered opponents.

Those kinds of distinctions are often based on envy and vanity more than marginal comfort or real benefit.

Avoiding such drugs or developing ones that ignore this protein, he notes, should lead to greater patient comfort.

But touch is not the only source of maternal comfort.

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World English Dictionary

comfort (ˈkʌmfət)

—n
1.	a state of ease or well-being
2.	relief from affliction, grief, etc
3.	a person, thing, or event that brings solace or ease
4.	obsolete support
5.	(usually plural) something that affords physical ease and relaxation

—vb
6.	to ease the pain of; soothe; cheer
7.	to bring physical ease to

[C13: from Old French confort, from Late Latin confortāre to strengthen very much, from Latin con- (intensive) + fortis strong]

'comforting

—*adj*

'comfortingly

—*adv*

'comfortless

—*adj*

'comfortlessly

—*adv*

'comfortlessness

—n

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Word Origin & History

comfort

late 13c., from O.Fr. conforter "to comfort, help, strengthen," from L.L. confortare "to strengthen much" (used in Vulgate), from L. com- intens. prefix + fortis "strong." The n. (early 13c.) replaced O.E. frofor. The noun comforts (as opposed to necessities and luxuries) is from 1650s.

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Idioms & Phrases

comfort

see cold comfort; creature comforts; too close for comfort.

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