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Noun comforter has 4 senses
- sympathizer, sympathiser, comforter - commiserates with someone who has had misfortune
--1 is a kind of communicator
--1 has particulars: Job's comforter
- reliever, allayer, comforter - a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies; "a reliever of anxiety"; "an allayer of fears"
--2 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
- quilt, comforter, puff - bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
--3 is a kind of bedclothes, bed clothing, bedding
--3 has particulars:
- comforter, pacifier, baby's dummy, teething ring - device used for an infant to suck or bite on
--4 is a kind of device
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