comforting

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: kŭmʹfərtĭng, IPA^(key): /ˈkʌm.fɚ.tɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌm.fə.tɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: com‧fort‧ing

Adjective

comforting (comparative more comforting, superlative most comforting)

1. Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.

   Your comforting words help ease my mind.

   It's comforting to know that I've always got my Mum when things go wrong.

Derived terms

• comfortingly
• comfortingness
• uncomforting

 

Translations

giving comfort

• Dutch: geruststellend (nl), geruststellende (nl), troostend (nl), troostende (nl)
• Finnish: lohdullinen (fi), lohduttava (fi)
• French: rassurant (fr), réconfortant (fr)
• German: tröstlich (de), beruhigend (de), ermutigend (de), tröstend (de), trostreich (de)
• Italian: consolante (it), riassicurante (it), rassicurante (it), confortante (it)
• Latin: cōnsōlātōrius
• Spanish: consolador (es), reconfortante (es)
• Ukrainian: уті́шний (utíšnyj), вті́шний (vtíšnyj)

Verb

comforting

1. present participle and gerund of comfort

Noun

comforting (plural comfortings)

1. The act of giving comfort.
   • 1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England, page 269:

     Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea […]