comforting
adjective
[ ˈkʌmfətɪŋ ]
• serving to alleviate a person's feelings of grief or distress.
• "we would like to thank our family and friends for their support and their comforting words"
Similar:
console,
solace,
bring comfort to,
give solace to,
condole with,
give condolences to,
commiserate with,
give sympathy to,
sympathize with,
help,
support,
succour,
ease,
reassure,
soothe,
assuage,
calm,
relieve,
cheer,
hearten,
gladden,
uplift,
give a lift to,
encourage,
buck up,
consoling,
consolatory,
condoling,
commiserative,
sympathetic,
understanding,
compassionate,
solicitous,
gentle,
tender,
warm,
protective,
caring,
loving,
helpful,
supportive,
easing,
reassuring,
soothing,
assuaging,
calming,
relieving,
cheering,
heartening,
uplifting,
encouraging,
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.
