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JOB'S COMFORTER

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Overview

JOB'S COMFORTER (noun)
  The noun JOB'S COMFORTER has 1 sense:

1. someone whose comfort is actually discouragingplay

  Familiarity information: JOB'S COMFORTER used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


JOB'S COMFORTER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone whose comfort is actually discouraging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Job's comforter" is a kind of...):

comforter; sympathiser; sympathizer (a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune)


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