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Adjective: comforting  kúm-fu(r)-ting
  1. Providing freedom from worry
    "The comforting news of her recovery lifted everyone's spirits";
    - cheering, satisfying
     
  2. Intended to console or comfort
    "She wrote a comforting letter to the bereaved family";
    - consolatory, consoling
Verb: comfort  kúm-fu(r)t
  1. Lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate
    "The nurse comforted the patient";
    - ease
     
  2. Try to help someone feel less distressed, grieving, or disappointed through sympathetic words or actions
    "His friends comforted him after the loss of his job";
    - soothe, console, solace

See also: reassuring, satisfactory

Type of: act, alleviate, assuage, move, palliate, relieve

Encyclopedia: Comfort, Texas