comfort
noun
[ ˈkʌmfət ]
• a state of physical ease and freedom from pain or constraint.
• "there is room for four people to travel in comfort"
• the easing or alleviation of a person's feelings of grief or distress.
• "a few words of comfort"
Similar:
consolation,
solace,
condolence,
sympathy,
fellow feeling,
commiseration,
help,
support,
succour,
relief,
easement,
alleviation,
reassurance,
cheer,
gladdening,
• a warm quilt.
comfort
verb
• ease the grief or distress of.
• "the victim was comforted by friends before being taken to hospital"
Origin:
Middle English (as a noun, in the senses ‘strengthening, support, consolation’; as a verb, in the senses ‘strengthen, give support, console’): from Old French confort (noun), conforter (verb), from late Latin confortare ‘strengthen’, from com- (expressing intensive force) + Latin fortis ‘strong’. The sense ‘something producing physical ease’ arose in the mid 17th century.
