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Adjective comforting has 2 senses
- comforting, cheering, satisfying - providing freedom from worry
Antonym: unsatisfactory (indirect, via satisfactory)
- comforting, consolatory, consoling - affording comfort or solace
Antonyms: unreassuring, worrisome (indirect, via reassuring)
Verb comfort has 2 senses
- comfort, soothe, console, solace - give moral or emotional strength to
Sample sentence:
The good news will comfort her
- comfort, ease - lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate; "ease the pain in your legs"
--2 is one way to relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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