comfort
UK/ˈkʌm.fət/
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comfort noun: contentment, ease.
Noun
comfort (countable and uncountable, plural comforts)
- Contentment, ease.
- 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...1684, chapter III, in Bucaniers of America: Or, A True Account of the Moſt Remarkable Aſſaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coaſts of the West-Indies, by Bucaniers of Jamica and Tortuga, Both...
- Antonyms:
- austerity
- Something that offers comfort.
- Coordinate term: glimmer (2020s, neologism; a happy moment)
- the comforts of home
- A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
- We still have the spare tire? That's a comfort at least.
- Synonyms:
- liss, solace, alleviation, consolation, ease, release, relief, respite
- A cause of relief or satisfaction.
- The outcome of the peace negotiations in Moscow in 1940 was a heavy blow to the young nation, but in the same time a great comfort: at least the independency was preserved.
Verb
comfort (third-person singular simple present comforts, present participle comforting, simple past and past participle comforted)
- To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
- Rob comforted Aaron because he was lost and very sad.
- Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comfoꝛted me.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 86:17
- To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
- God's own testimony […] doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)
- To assist or help; to aid.
- I […] cannot help the noble chevalier: / God comfort him in this necessity!1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
Proper noun capitalized: Comfort
Comfort (countable and uncountable, plural Comforts)
- A surname.
- A female given name.
- A township in Kanabec County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Jones County, North Carolina.
- A census-designated place in Kendall County, Texas.
- A census-designated place in Boone County, West Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in the town of Weston, Dunn County, Wisconsin.
comfort meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
comfort in Hindi
- contentment, ease
- आराम ārām, सुखद sukhad
- consolation
- सांत्वना sāntvanā
- to provide comfort to — see also console
- सांत्वना sāntvanā
comfort in Tamil
- வசதி, ஆறுதல், சௌகரியம், ஆறுதலளி, தேற்று
comfort in Marathi
- comfort, luxury
- विलास vilās
comfort in Urdu
- comfort, tranquility, at rest, quiet, peace
- چین cain
- comfort, relief, respite, tranquillity
- راحت rāhat
- comfort
- سکھ sukh, آرام ārām
More languagesFewer languages
- comfort in Bengali
- আরাম aram, সান্ত্বনা śanttona
- comfort in Telugu
- సౌఖ్యము saukhyamu, సౌకర్యము saukaryamu
- comfort in Malayalam
- സുഖം sukhaṁ, സമാധാനം samādhānaṁ
- comfort in Kannada
- ಸಮಾಧಾನ samādhāna
- comfort in Punjabi
- سکھ sukh
- comfort in Gujarati
- દિલાસો, દિલાસો આપવા માટે, દિલાસો આપવા
- comfort in Odia
- ଖୁସି khusi
- comfort in Sanskrit
- सुख sukhá, प्रीणाति prīṇā́ti, इरा irā
- comfort in Nepali
- सान्त्वना
- comfort in Arabic
- رَاحَة rāḥa, جابر, وَاسَى wāsā, عَزَّى ʕazzā
- comfort in Indonesian
- kenyamanan, kepuasan
- comfort in Persian
- راحت râhat, آسایش âsâyeš
Examples of comfort in a sentence
- How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!1850, T. S. Arthur, “A Rise in the Butter Market”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 59:
- I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur2024, “Hot One”, in King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2, performed by Denzel Curry:
- Light, above all things, excelleth in comforting the spirits of men.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In...
Synonyms of comfort
Antonyms
Forms of comfort
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | comforts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | comforts |
| present participle | comforting |
| past participle | comforted |
| past | comforted |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Comforts |
Origin of comfort
From Middle English comfort, from Old French cunfort, confort, from the stem of Late Latin confortō. It replaced Old English frofor, Middle English frovre.
From Middle English comforten, from Old French conforter, from Late Latin confortō (“to strengthen greatly”), itself from Latin con- (“together”) + fortis (“strong”).
From the English word comfort.
Words formed from comfort
- cold comfort
- comfortability
- comfortable
- comfortative
- comfort break
- comfort-eat
- comfort eating
- comfortfic
- comfort fic
- comfort food
- comfortful
- comfort girl
- comfortize
- comfortless
- comfort letter
- comfortment
- comfort noise
- comfort room
- comfortsome
- comfort station
- comfort stone
- comfort stop
- comfort tone
- comfortwear
- comfort woman
- comfort zone
- creature comfort
- discomfort
- Dutch comfort
- enumeration comma
- Job's comfort
- Lawson comfort criterion
- letter of comfort
- lip comfort
- miscomfort
- thermal comfort
- too close for comfort
- uncomfort
- comforter
- comforting
Phrases with comfort
- comfort bike
- comfort bikes
- comfort foods
- comfort girls
- comfort rooms
- comfort stops
- comfort women
- comfort zones
- Point Comfort
- comfort breaks
- comfort letters
- comfort stations
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Questions about comfort
- What does comfort mean?
- Comfort means contentment, ease.
- What is comfort in Hindi?
- Comfort in Hindi is आराम (ārām), सुखद (sukhad), सांत्वना (sāntvanā). See Comfort meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use comfort in a sentence?
- How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!
- What part of speech is comfort?
- Comfort can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce comfort?
- Comfort is pronounced /ˈkʌm.fət/ (UK).
- What is the plural of comfort?
- The plural of comfort is comforts.
Words near comfort in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: comfort (page history and authors); Comfort (page history and authors); comfort (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); विलास (Marathi) (page history and authors); آرام (Urdu) (page history and authors); సౌకర్యము (Telugu) (page history and authors); ಸಮಾಧಾನ (Kannada) (page history and authors); سکھ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); comfort (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ଖୁସି (Odia) (page history and authors); इरा (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); comfort (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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