Definitions for Comfort

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Comfort com·fort

Spelling: [kuhm-fert]

IPA: /ˈkʌm fərt/

Comfort is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in Comfort (cfmoort).

Definitions for Comfort

noun

1. relief in affliction; consolation; solace:
2. a feeling of relief or consolation:
3. a person or thing that gives consolation:
4. a cause or matter of relief or satisfaction:
5. a state of ease and satisfaction of bodily wants, with freedom from pain and anxiety:
6. something that promotes such a state:
7. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. a comforter or quilt.
8. Obsolete. strengthening aid; assistance.

verb (used with object)

1. to soothe, console, or reassure; bring cheer to:
2. to make physically comfortable.
3. Obsolete. to aid; support or encourage.

Origin of Comfort

1175-1225; (v.) Middle English comfortien, variant of confortien, conforten Anglo-French, Old French conforter Late Latin confortāre to strengthen, equivalent to con- con-

Examples for Comfort

You are welcome to all the comfort you can find in your present situation.

Talking about death is never easy, but with food, comfort, and familiarity, a new kind of dinner party is making it easier.

But, if anything, the endurance made the desire for comfort food even greater.

Everybody was drawn to her, yet not a soul took any comfort in her.

God knows I ain't discountin' the comfort I've always took in him.

Cereal brings back memories of lazy mornings and easy extravagance, a time when worries were few and comfort was plenty.

Liberals either boast or comfort themselves that their own beliefs push humanity forward.

The doctor tells me I can walk on it right away, “as comfort allows.”

However, there was one comfort—English tongues answered, if it was only with denials.

No doubt it was true, for she would have insisted on moderate cleanliness and comfort.