comfortingadjective
uk/ˈkʌm.fə.tɪŋ/us/ˈkʌm.fɚ.t̬ɪŋ/C2 making you feel less sad or worried:
I found her words very comforting.
Hot soup is very comforting on a cold winter's day.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Reassuring
- assure
- be/take a weight off your mind idiom
- calm (sb) down
- comfort
- consolation
- console
- consoling
- consolingly
- convince
- emollient
- get (sth) through (to sb)
- heartened
- heartening
- lighten
- mind
- no news is good news idiom
- reassuring
- should
- they should worry! idiom
- weight
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