Comfort

/ˈkʌm.fət/ · noun

Meaning

Contentment, ease..

Definitions by Sense

1. Contentment, ease.
2. Something that offers comfort.
3. A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
4. A cause of relief or satisfaction.
5. (transitive) To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
6. (obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
7. (obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.

Example Sentences

Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.

But all was in vain: For having ranged up and down the Woods for ſome days, without finding the leaſt comfort to their hungry deſires, they were forced to return again unto the River. […] At laſt they arrived at the Coaſt of the Sea, where they found ſome comfort and relief to their former miſeries, and alſo means to ſeek more.

How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur

Coordinate term: glimmer (2020s, neologism; a happy moment)

the comforts of home

We still have the spare tire? That's a comfort at least.

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Word Forms

• comforts
• comforting
• comforted

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