COMFORTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comforting mean? 

• COMFORTING (adjective)
  The adjective COMFORTING has 2 senses:

1. providing freedom from worry

2. affording comfort or solace

  Familiarity information: COMFORTING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMFORTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Providing freedom from worry

Synonyms:

cheering; comforting; satisfying

Similar:

satisfactory (giving satisfaction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Affording comfort or solace

Synonyms:

comforting; consolatory; consoling

Similar:

reassuring (restoring confidence and relieving anxiety)

 Context examples 

Your sessions can bring you to a new perspective and a comforting sense of calm.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"Euthanasia" is an excellent and a comforting word!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

These turnovers were an institution, and the girls called them 'muffs', for they had no others and found the hot pies very comforting to their hands on cold mornings.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This was not upon the whole very comforting to a rapturous lover; but I was glad to have my aunt in my confidence, and I was mindful of her being fatigued.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Know, that in the course of your future life you will often find yourself elected the involuntary confidant of your acquaintances' secrets: people will instinctively find out, as I have done, that it is not your forte to tell of yourself, but to listen while others talk of themselves; they will feel, too, that you listen with no malevolent scorn of their indiscretion, but with a kind of innate sympathy; not the less comforting and encouraging because it is very unobtrusive in its manifestations.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Catherine walked on to her chamber, making up her mind as well as she could, to a further acquaintance with Captain Tilney, and comforting herself under the unpleasant impression his conduct had given her, and the persuasion of his being by far too fine a gentleman to approve of her, that at least they should not meet under such circumstances as would make their meeting materially painful.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Saturn will be in a comforting position and allow you to find ways to stabilize and multiply your money.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There is something of a guiding purpose manifest throughout, which is comforting.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

However, I now wrote a comforting letter to Mrs. Micawber, in our joint names, and we both signed it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Meg wanted me to bring some of her blanc mange, she makes it very nicely, and Beth thought her cats would be comforting.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)