Adjective comforting has 2 senses
  1. comforting, cheering, satisfying - providing freedom from worry
    Antonym: unsatisfactory (indirect, via satisfactory)
  2. comforting, consolatory, consoling - affording comfort or solace
    Antonyms: unreassuring, worrisome (indirect, via reassuring)
,Verb comfort has 2 senses
  1. comfort, soothe, console, solace - give moral or emotional strength to
    Derived forms: noun comfort3, noun comforter2, noun comforter1
    Sample sentence:
    The good news will comfort her
  2. comfort, ease - lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate; "ease the pain in your legs"
    --2 is one way to relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage
    Derived forms: noun comfort1, noun comforter4, noun comforter3
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
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