COMFORTING Synonyms

• encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators

• providing freedom from worry

• affording comfort or solace

• giving courage or confidence or hope

• furnishing support and encouragement

• cheerfully encouraging

• restoring confidence and relieving anxiety

• affording physical or mental rest

• affording physical relief

• freeing from fear and anxiety

• furnishing support or assistance

• the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment

• comfort in disappointment or misery

• the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction

• give moral or emotional strength to

• freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort

• a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state

• the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress)

• freedom from constraint or embarrassment

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• move gently or carefully

• lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate

• make easier

• lessen the intensity of or calm

• the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment

• comfort in disappointment or misery

• the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction

• give moral or emotional strength to

• a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain

• a feeling of being at ease in a relationship

• a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune

• a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies

• bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

• device used for an infant to suck or bite on

• the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment

• the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction

• a small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall

• a scientific instrument consisting of displays and an input device that an operator can use to monitor and control a system (especially a computer system)

• an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture)

• housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television

• give moral or emotional strength to

• a short light gust of air

• a light inflated pastry or puff shell

• exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)

• bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

• a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin

• thick cushion used as a seat

• a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)

• forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth

• gathered for protruding fullness

• smoke and exhale strongly

• suck in or take (air)

• breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted

• make proud or conceited

• praise extravagantly

• speak in a blustering or scornful manner

• to swell or cause to enlarge

• blow hard and loudly

• bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

• stitch or sew together

• create by stitching together

• give moral or emotional strength to

• cause to feel better