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Definitions for COMFORTING
com·fort·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. comforting, cheering, satisfyingadjective

    providing freedom from worry

  2. comforting, consolatory, consolingadjective

    affording comfort or solace

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  1. comfortingadjective

    Giving comfort.

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  1. comforting

    Comforting refers to the act of providing emotional support, consolation, or relief to someone who is experiencing distress, anxiety, pain, or grief. It involves offering kindness, encouragement, sympathy or words and actions that help to alleviate one's feelings of sorrow or distress.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of COMFORTING in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of COMFORTING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of COMFORTING in a Sentence

  1. Kevin Crowell:

    It's still a transition period when you bring the dog home. My wife had to get used to me spending a lot of time with her as well as Bella coming up and comforting me, it was about six months to a year when things really started to gel and she just became another part of the family.

  2. Robert Joseph:

    What is especially difficult for elders is the disruption of extended support networks, such as neighbors or the people they see at church, those are the' Hey, how are you doing ? How are your kids ? Anything you need ?' interactions. That type of caring is very comforting and it's now missing.

  3. Lisa Damour:

    It will have the opposite effect of what we would want for kids, rather than the physical affection being comforting and reassuring, it becomes anxiety-provoking.

  4. John Koenig:

    We sketch monsters on the map because we find their presence comforting. They guard the edges of the abyss, and force us to look away; so we can live comfortably in the Known World, at least for a little while.

  5. Buzz Aldrin:

    We landed very, very close to where we were supposed to be, and there’s nothing more comforting to be descending down, and pretty soon the pressure on the outside is more than the pressure on the inside and we began to smell salt air, then we knew we were home.

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Translations for COMFORTING

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  • consolador, reconfortanteSpanish
  • lohduttava, lohdullinenFinnish
  • rassurant, rassuranteFrench
  • geruststellende, troostende, geruststellend, troostendDutch
  • rahatlatıcıTurkish

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