Comfort meaning of word

• Arabic: رَاحَة‎ f (rāḥa)
• Belarusian: выго́да f (vyhóda), зру́чнасць f (zrúčnascʹ), камфо́рт m (kamfórt)
• Bengali: আরাম (bn) (aram)
• Bulgarian: удо́бство (bg) n (udóbstvo)
• Catalan: comoditat (ca) f, confort (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舒適／舒适 (zh) (shūshì)

• Czech: pohodlí (cs) n
• Danish: behagelighed c, bekvemmelighed c, komfort c
• Dutch: comfort (nl) n, gemak (nl) n
• Esperanto: komforto (eo)
• Finnish: mukavuus (fi)
• French: confort (fr) m
• Galician: conforto (gl) m, conforte m, comodidade (gl) f, conchego m
• German: Behaglichkeit (de) f, Bequemlichkeit (de) f, Komfort (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌶𐌴𐍄𐌹 n (azēti)
• Greek: άνεση (el) f (ánesi)

  Ancient: τὸ ἀνειμένον (tò aneiménon)

• Hebrew: נוחות‎ (he) f (nokhút)
• Hindi: आराम (hi) (ārām)
• Hungarian: kényelem (hu)
• Indonesian: kenyamanan (id)
• Irish: compord m, só m

  Old Irish: sádaile f, sádailecht f

• Italian: agio (it) m, comodità (it) f
• Japanese: 快適さ (かいてきさ, kaitekisa)
• Latvian: ērtība f
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: удобност f (udobnost)
• Malayalam: സുഖം (ml) (sukhaṃ)
• Maori: oranga ngākau, āhurutanga, hāneaneatanga
• Papiamentu: fasilidat
• Persian: راحت‎ (fa) (râhat), آسایش‎ (fa) (âsâyeš)
• Plautdietsch: Jemak n
• Polish: wygoda (pl) f, komfort (pl) m
• Portuguese: conforto (pt) m
• Romanian: confort (ro)
• Russian: удо́бство (ru) n (udóbstvo), комфо́рт (ru) m (komfórt), ую́т (ru) m (ujút)
• Serbo-Croatian: komfor (sh) m
• Slovak: pohodlie n
• Slovene: udobje n
• Somali: raaxo
• Spanish: comodidad (es) f
• Swedish: bekvämlighet (sv) c, komfort (sv) c
• Tajik: қулай (qulay), роҳат (rohat)
• Turkish: konfor (tr)
• Ukrainian: зру́чність f (zrúčnistʹ), вигі́дність f (vyhídnistʹ), комфо́рт (uk) m (komfórt)

• Bashkir: йыуаныс (yıwanıs)
• Belarusian: уцяшэ́нне n (ucjašénnje), суцяшэ́нне n (sucjašénnje)
• Bulgarian: утеха (bg) f (uteha)
• Catalan: consol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安慰 (zh) (ānwèi)

• Czech: pohodlí (cs) n
• Danish: trøst (da) c
• Dutch: troost (nl)
• Faroese: uggi m
• Finnish: lohtu (fi), lohdutus (fi)
• Galician: consolo m, bago (gl) m, albenda f, conorto m, conforto (gl) m
• German: Trost (de) m, Tröstung f
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌸𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍃 f (gaþlaihts)
• Greek: παρηγοριά (el) f (parigoriá)
• Hebrew: נחמה‎ (he) f (nekhamá)
• Hungarian: vigasz (hu), vigasztalás (hu)
• Irish: sólás m
• Japanese: 慰め (なぐさめ, nagusame)
• Latin: sōlāmen n
• Malayalam: സമാധാനം (ml) (samādhānaṃ)
• Maori: tupoho
• Plautdietsch: Troost m
• Polish: pociecha (pl) f
• Portuguese: conforto (pt) m, consolo (pt) m
• Romanian: consolare (ro) f
• Russian: утеше́ние (ru) n (utešénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: utjeha (sh) f, uteha f
• Spanish: consuelo (es) m
• Swedish: tröst (sv) c
• Tocharian B: tsārwäṣṣälyñe
• Ukrainian: утіша́ння n (utišánnja)
• Walloon: ricfoirt (wa) m
• Welsh: cysur m
• Yiddish: טרייסט‎ f (treyst)

• Bulgarian: разтуха (bg) f (raztuha), облекчение (bg) n (oblekčenie)
• Catalan: benestar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安逸 (zh) (ānyì)

• Dutch: troost (nl), gemak (nl) n
• Finnish: helpotus (fi)
• Galician: consolo m, bago (gl) m, albenda f, conorto m, conforto (gl) m
• German: Trost (de) m, Tröstung f
• Hebrew: נחמה‎ (he) f (nekhamá)
• Hungarian: enyhület
• Indonesian: kepuasan (id)
• Portuguese: conforto (pt) m, consolo (pt) m
• Russian: уте́ха (ru) f (utéxa), утеше́ние (ru) n (utešénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: utjeha (sh) f, uteha f
• Swedish: tröst (sv) c

• Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} behaaglikheid
• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} rehat (sq)
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} lohutus
• French: ^{(please verify)} confort (fr)
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} dhairya
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} hugga (is)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} benessere (it)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 안락(安樂) (ko) (allak)
• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} mierinājums
• Mongolian: ^{(please verify)} тайтгарал (mn) (tajtgaral)
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} bekvemmelighet (no)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} confort (ro)
• Scottish Gaelic: ^{(please verify)} comhurtachd f, ^{(please verify)} cothrom m, ^{(please verify)} sàsadh m, ^{(please verify)} sìoch f, ^{(please verify)} socair f, ^{(please verify)} sòlas m
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} udobnost (sh)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} zadovoljstvo (sh)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} задовољство (zadovoljstvo)
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} potešovať
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} udobje n, ^{(please verify)} uteha (sl) f
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} anasa
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} bekvämlighet (sv), ^{(please verify)} tröst (sv)
• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} aliw (tl)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} సౌకర్యము (te) (saukaryamu)
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} คนหรือสิ่งอำนวยความสะดวก (kon rĕu sìng am-nuay kwaam sà-dùak)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} rahat (tr)
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} виго́да (vyhóda)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} sự an ủi
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} cysur

• Albanian:

  Arbëresh: fqerënj

• Arabic: وَاسَى‎ (wāsā), عَزَّى‎ (ʕazzā), سَلَّى‎ (sallā)
• Armenian: մխիթարել (hy) (mxitʿarel), սփոփել (hy) (spʿopʿel)
• Azerbaijani: ürək-dirək vermək
• Belarusian: супако́йваць impf (supakójvacʹ), супако́іць pf (supakóicʹ), заспако́йваць impf (zaspakójvacʹ), заспако́іць pf (zaspakóicʹ), уцяша́ць impf (ucjašácʹ), уце́шыць pf (ucjéšycʹ)
• Bulgarian: утешавам (bg) (utešavam), успокоявам (bg) (uspokojavam)
• Catalan: consolar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安慰 (zh) (ānwèi), 寬慰／宽慰 (zh) (kuānwèi)

• Dutch: troosten (nl)
• Finnish: lohduttaa (fi)
• French: consoler (fr)
• German: trösten (de), ermutigen (de)
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌸𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gaþlaihan), 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐍆𐍃𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þrafstjan)
• Greek: παρηγορώ (el) (parigoró)

  Ancient: παρηγορέω (parēgoréō)

• Hebrew: הרגיע‎ (hirgía), ניחם‎ (nikhém)
• Japanese: 慰める (ja) (なぐめる, nagumeru)
• Kalmyk: төвкнүлх (tövknülh)
• Latin: consōlor, alloquor (la)
• Ngazidja Comorian: utruliza
• Portuguese: confortar (pt), reconfortar (pt)
• Russian: успока́ивать (ru) impf (uspokáivatʹ), успоко́ить (ru) pf (uspokóitʹ), утеша́ть (ru) impf (utešátʹ), уте́шить (ru) pf (utéšitʹ)
• Slovak: uteší
• Spanish: confortar (es)
• Ukrainian: заспоко́ювати impf (zaspokójuvaty), заспоко́їти pf (zaspokójity), утиша́ти impf (utyšáty), ути́шити pf (utýšyty)
• West Frisian: treastgje
• Yiddish: טרייסטן‎ (treystn)

• Catalan: confortar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使宽慰

• Dutch: comfort (nl) verschaffen, het gemakkelijk maken
• Finnish: tehdä mukavaksi
• German: trösten (de), ermutigen (de)
• Latin: alloquor (la)
• Maori: whakaahuru, whakamāhorahora

Recent Examples on the Web

While a bit cheesy, this aspect of the game was comforting in times that were otherwise quite unsettling and in the face of particularly challenging boss confrontations (battles and otherwise).


—WIRED, 2 Apr. 2023




Since then, the Secret Service has been comforted to learn that Trump plans to surrender rather than be arrested.


—Josh Dawsey, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023




Before departing Gemelli Polyclinic late Saturday morning, Francis comforted a Rome couple whose 5-year-old daughter died Friday night at the Catholic hospital.


—Francis D’emilio, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023




After the phone call, the twins comfort each other through their tears as Florian tries to calm them down.


—Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023




Since the experience of time-traveling back to a familiar, bygone era when eating in the Chain house is, on a psychological level, comforting, people tend to sit — and stay.


—Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Mar. 2023




In Vermont: Unlikely book hits No. 1 on Amazon after daughter’s TikTok showed dad’s toil, low sales In Denver: Alone and grieving at the airport, 2 strangers comforted her.


—Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2023




This is comforting, in a way.


—Shon Faye, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2023




The brother of an Iraqi National Guardsman who was killed by a car bomb was comforted by a family member at a hospital morgue in Baghdad on July 14.


—The New York Times, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023

This full moon highlights a part of your chart that deals with home, which is perfect for you, a creature of comfort.


—Jacqueline Tempera, Women’s Health, 31 Mar. 2023




Although fictional accounts, from antiquity until today, have offered us terrible, even treacherous mothers, including Euripides’s Medea and Livia Soprano, depictions of unrealistically all-good mothers, such as Marmee from Little Women, are more common and provide a sense of comfort.


—Daphne Merkin, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2023




The super-supportive seats are somewhat tricky to enter and exit yet provide a surprising amount of comfort.


—David Beard, Car and Driver, 30 Mar. 2023




With such a slippery grip on the vagaries of modern life, a homemade meal is a promise of comfort and calm.


—Tucker Shaw, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023




It was held outside of a memorial at The Covenant School, which has become a place of comfort for some.


—Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023




That might be slim comfort if your kid cranks tends to crank up volume up to the max: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recommends less than 15 minutes of exposure per day to 100dBA sounds to avoid hearing loss, and even OSHA limits workers to two hours per day.


—Sean Hollister, The Verge, 29 Mar. 2023




But the charter-school episode marks the first time that the main threat to their work is their own comfort with being observed.


—Niela Orr, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023




The best characteristic of this jacket might be the spot-on comfort only a good bomber jacket can pull off.


—John Thompson, Men’s Health, 28 Mar. 2023


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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	comfort — a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain; «he is a man who enjoys his comfort»; «she longed for the comfortableness of her armchair» comfortableness condition, status — a state at a particular time; «a condition (or state) of disrepair»; «the current status of the arms negotiations» relief, ease — the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress); «he enjoyed his relief from responsibility»; «getting it off his conscience gave him some ease» solacement, solace — comfort in disappointment or misery cosiness, coziness, snugness — a state of warm snug comfort convenience — the state of being suitable or opportune; «chairs arranged for his own convenience» discomfort, uncomfortableness — the state of being tense and feeling pain
	2.	comfort — a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment pleasure, pleasance — a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; «he was tingling with pleasure» consolation, solace, solacement — the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment; «second place was no consolation to him» alleviation, assuagement, relief — the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced; «as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief»
	3.	comfort — the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction; «his presence was a consolation to her» consolation, solace ministration, succor, succour, relief — assistance in time of difficulty; «the contributions provided some relief for the victims»
	4.	comfort — a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state; «a life of luxury and ease»; «he had all the material comforts of this world» ease affluence, richness — abundant wealth; «they studied forerunners of richness or poverty»; «the richness all around unsettled him for he had expected to find poverty» lap of luxury — in conditions of wealth and comfort; «he was raised in the lap of luxury»
	5.	comfort — satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing; «his friendship was a comfort»; «a padded chair was one of the room’s few comforts» gratification, satisfaction — state of being gratified or satisfied; «dull repetitious work gives no gratification»; «to my immense gratification he arrived on time»
	6.	comfort — bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together quilt, comforter, puff bed clothing, bedclothes, bedding — coverings that are used on a bed continental quilt, duvet, eiderdown — a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider patchwork quilt, patchwork — a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together
	7.	comfort — assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal; «it gave comfort to the enemy» assist, assistance, help, aid — the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; «he gave me an assist with the housework»; «could not walk without assistance»; «rescue party went to their aid»; «offered his help in unloading»
Verb	1.	comfort — give moral or emotional strength to console, solace, soothe calm, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize, calm down, quiet, quieten, lull — make calm or still; «quiet the dragons of worry and fear» allay, still, ease, relieve — lessen the intensity of or calm; «The news eased my conscience»; «still the fears»
	2.	comfort — lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate; «ease the pain in your legs» ease alleviate, relieve, palliate, assuage — provide physical relief, as from pain; «This pill will relieve your headaches»

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

comfort

noun

2. consolation, cheer, encouragement, succour, help, support, aid, relief, ease, compensation, alleviation I tried to find some words of comfort to offer her.
consolation discomfort, irritation, hassle (informal), annoyance, aggravation, discouragement

verb

1. console, encourage, ease, cheer, strengthen, relieve, reassure, soothe, hearten, solace, assuage, gladden, commiserate with He put his arm round her, trying to comfort her.
console trouble, excite, bother, depress, distress, annoy, irritate, discomfort, hassle (informal), aggravate (informal), agitate, ruffle, sadden, irk, rile, give someone grief

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

comfort

verb

1. To give hope to in time of grief or pain:

2. To make less severe or more bearable:

noun

1. Steady good fortune or financial security:

2. A consoling in time of grief or pain:

3. Anything that increases physical comfort:

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