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comfort
Overview of noun comfort
The noun comfort has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (5) comfort, comfortableness -- (a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain; "he is a man who enjoys his comfort"; "she longed for the comfortableness of her armchair")
2. (5) comfort -- (a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment)
3. (4) consolation, comfort, solace -- (the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction; "his presence was a consolation to her")
4. ease, comfort -- (a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state; "a life of luxury and ease"; "he had all the material comforts of this world")
Overview of verb comfort
The verb comfort has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (4) comfort, soothe, console, solace -- (give moral or emotional strength to)
2. (1) comfort, ease -- (lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate; "ease the pain in your legs")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun comfort
4 senses of comfort
Sense 1
comfort, comfortableness
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
comfort
=> pleasure, pleasance
=> feeling
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
consolation, comfort, solace
=> relief, succor, succour, ministration
=> aid, assist, assistance, help
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
ease, comfort
=> affluence, richness
=> wealth, wealthiness
=> financial condition, economic condition
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun comfort
3 of 4 senses of comfort
Sense 1
comfort, comfortableness
=> relief, ease
=> solace, solacement
=> coziness, cosiness, snugness
=> convenience
Sense 2
comfort
=> consolation, solace, solacement
=> relief, alleviation, assuagement
Sense 4
ease, comfort
=> lap of luxury
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun comfort
4 senses of comfort
Sense 1
comfort, comfortableness
=> condition, status
Sense 2
comfort
=> pleasure, pleasance
Sense 3
consolation, comfort, solace
=> relief, succor, succour, ministration
Sense 4
ease, comfort
=> affluence, richness
Antonyms of noun comfort
1 of 4 senses of comfort
Sense 1
comfort, comfortableness
Antonym of discomfort (Sense 1)
=>discomfort, uncomfortableness
Member Holonyms of noun comfort
Substance Holonyms of noun comfort
Part Holonyms of noun comfort
Member Meronyms of noun comfort
Substance Meronyms of noun comfort
Part Meronyms of noun comfort
Meronyms of noun comfort
Holonyms of noun comfort
Attributes of noun comfort
1 of 4 senses of comfort
Sense 1
comfort, comfortableness
=> comfortable (vs. uncomfortable), comfy
=> uncomfortable (vs. comfortable)
Derived Forms of noun comfort
2 of 4 senses of comfort
Sense 1
comfort, comfortableness
RELATED TO>(verb) comfort#2
=> comfort, ease
Sense 3
consolation, comfort, solace
RELATED TO>(verb) comfort#1
=> comfort, soothe, console, solace
Domain of noun comfort
Domain Terms of noun comfort
Familiarity of noun comfort
comfort used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun comfort
4 senses of comfort
Sense 1
comfort, comfortableness
> condition, status
=> anchorage
=> health
=> mode
=> niche, ecological niche
=> noise conditions
=> participation, involvement
=> prepossession
=> regularization, regularisation
=> saturation
=> silence
=> situation, position
=> ski conditions
=> nomination
=> standardization, standardisation
=> stigmatism
=> astigmatism, astigmia
=> way
=> circumstance
=> homelessness
=> reinstatement
=> place
=> celibacy
=> virginity
=> innocence
=> purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whiteness
=> guilt, guiltiness
=> encapsulation
=> polarization, polarisation
=> pathological state
=> disorder, upset
=> hyalinization, hyalinisation
=> vacuolization, vacuolisation, vacuolation
=> protuberance
=> curvature
=> psychological state, mental state
=> difficulty
=> improvement, melioration
=> decline, declination
=> ennoblement
=> dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
=> comfort, comfortableness
=> discomfort, uncomfortableness
=> need, demand
=> fullness
=> emptiness
=> nakedness, nudity, nudeness
=> hairlessness, depilation
=> dishabille, deshabille
=> hopefulness
=> despair, desperation
=> purity, pureness
=> impurity, impureness
=> financial condition, economic condition
=> sanitary condition
=> tilth
=> orderliness, order
=> disorderliness, disorder
=> normality, normalcy
=> abnormality, abnormalcy, abnormal condition
=> lactosuria
=> environmental condition
=> climate, mood
=> atmosphere, ambiance, ambience
=> unsusceptibility, immunity
=> immunity, resistance
=> subservience
=> susceptibility, susceptibleness
=> wetness
=> dryness, waterlessness, xerotes
=> safety
=> danger
=> tension, tensity, tenseness, tautness
=> atonicity, atony, atonia, amyotonia
=> laxness, laxity
=> repair
=> soundness
=> mutism, muteness
=> eye condition
=> unsoundness
=> impropriety
=> iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark
=> light, illumination
=> malady
=> serration
=> absolution
=> automation
=> brutalization, brutalisation
=> condemnation
=> deification
=> diversification
=> exoneration
=> facilitation
=> frizz
=> fruition
=> hospitalization
=> identification
=> impaction
=> ionization, ionisation
=> irradiation
=> leakiness
=> lubrication
=> mechanization, mechanisation
=> motivation
=> mummification
=> preservation
=> prognathism
=> rustication
=> rustiness
=> scandalization, scandalisation
=> submission
=> urbanization, urbanisation
Sense 2
comfort
> pleasure, pleasance
=> delight, delectation
=> enjoyment
=> pleasantness
=> comfort
=> sexual pleasure
Sense 3
consolation, comfort, solace
> relief, succor, succour, ministration
=> consolation, comfort, solace
=> mercy
Sense 4
ease, comfort
> affluence, richness
=> ease, comfort
Meronyms of noun comfort
4 senses of comfort
Holonyms of noun comfort
Grep of noun comfort
cold comfort
comfort
comfort food
comfort station
comfort woman
comfort zone
comfortableness
comforter
comforts
discomfort
louis comfort tiffany
Antonyms of verb comfort
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb comfort
2 senses of comfort
Sense 1
comfort, soothe, console, solace
Sense 2
comfort, ease
=> relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb comfort
1 of 2 senses of comfort
Sense 1
comfort, soothe, console, solace
=> calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still
=> still, allay, relieve, ease
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb comfort
2 senses of comfort
Sense 1
comfort, soothe, console, solace
Sense 2
comfort, ease
=> relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage
'Cause To' of verb comfort
Derived Forms of verb comfort
2 senses of comfort
Sense 1
comfort, soothe, console, solace
RELATED TO>(noun) comfort#3
=> consolation, comfort, solace
RELATED TO>(noun) comforter#2
=> reliever, allayer, comforter
RELATED TO>(noun) comforter#1
=> sympathizer, sympathiser, comforter
Sense 2
comfort, ease
RELATED TO>(noun) comfort#1
=> comfort, comfortableness
RELATED TO>(noun) comforter#4
=> comforter, pacifier, baby's dummy, teething ring
RELATED TO>(noun) comforter#3
=> quilt, comforter, puff
Domain of verb comfort
Domain Terms of verb comfort
Familiarity of verb comfort
comfort used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb comfort
2 senses of comfort
Sense 1
comfort, soothe, console, solace
EX: The good news will comfort her
Sense 2
comfort, ease
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb comfort
1 of 2 senses of comfort
Sense 2
comfort, ease
> relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage
=> soothe
=> comfort, ease
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb comfort
Sense 1
comfort, soothe, console, solace
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Sense 2
comfort, ease
=> relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage
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Grep of verb comfort
comfort
Grep of adj comfort
comfortable
comforted
comforting
comfortless
Grep of adv comfort
comfortably
comfortingly
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