Usually means: Providing solace, warmth, and reassurance.
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  1. comforting: Merriam-Webster
  2. comforting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. comforting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. comforting: Vocabulary.com
  5. Comforting, comforting: Wordnik
  6. comforting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. comforting: Wiktionary
  8. comforting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. comforting: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Comforting, comforting: Dictionary.com
  11. comforting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Comforting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. comforting: Rhymezone
  14. Comforting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. comforting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. comforting: FreeDictionary.org
  17. comforting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. comforting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. comforting: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. comforting: Legal dictionary

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  1. comforting: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (comforting)

▸ adjective:  Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.
▸ noun:  The act of giving comfort.

Similar:
consoling, consolatory, reassuring, satisfying, satisfactory, cheering, comfortative, soothing, comfortable, solaceful, more...

Opposite:
unsettling, distressing, alarming, disconcerting, unnerving

Types:
physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, sexual, financial, material, more...

Phrases:
part of a comforting duo in psalms, comforting words, not comforting, safe and comforting, comforting place, more...

Colors:
    soft lavender,     pastel pink,     light sage,     creamy ivory,     dusty rose, more...



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Similar:
consoling, consolatory, reassuring, satisfying, satisfactory, cheering, comfortative, soothing, comfortable, solaceful, more...

Opposite:
unsettling, distressing, alarming, disconcerting, unnerving

Types:
physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, sexual, financial, material, more...

Phrases:
part of a comforting duo in psalms, comforting words, not comforting, safe and comforting, comforting place, comforting revelation, opposite of comforting, easy going comforting relaxing, comforting tone, more...

Colors:
    soft lavender,     pastel pink,     light sage,     creamy ivory,     dusty rose, more...



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