comfort (comforts plural & 3rd person present) (comforting present participle) (comforted past tense & past participle )
1 n-uncount If you are doing something incomfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
oft in/for N (Antonym: discomfort)
This will enable the audience to sit in comfort while watching the shows..., The shoe has padding around the collar, heel and tongue for added comfort.
2 n-uncount Comfort is a style of life in which you have enough money to have everything you need.
oft in N
Surely there is some way of ordering our busy lives so that we can live in comfort and find spiritual harmony too.
3 n-uncount Comfort is what you feel when worries or unhappiness stop.
He welcomed the truce, but pointed out it was of little comfort to families spending Christmas without a loved one..., He will be able to take some comfort from inflation figures due on Friday..., He found comfort in Eva's blind faith in him.
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cold comfort
4 n-count If you refer to a person, thing, or idea as a comfort, you mean that it helps you to stop worrying or makes you feel less unhappy.
usu sing, oft N to n, it v-link N to-inf/-ing
It's a comfort talking to you..., Being able to afford a drink would be a comfort in these tough times.
5 verb If you comfort someone, you make them feel less worried, unhappy, or upset, for example by saying kind things to them.
(=console)
Ned put his arm around her, trying to comfort her. V n
6 n-count Comforts are things which make your life easier and more pleasant, such as electrical devices you have in your home.
usu pl
She enjoys the material comforts married life has brought her..., Electricity provides us with warmth and light and all our modern home comforts...
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creature comforts
7 If you say that something is, for example, too close for comfort, you mean you are worried because it is closer than you would like it to be.
too close etc for comfort phrase PHR after v, v-link PHR The bombs fell in the sea, many too close for comfort..., Although crimes against visitors were falling, the levels of crime were still too high for comfort.
cold comfort
If you say that a slightly encouraging fact or event is cold comfortto someone, you mean that it gives them little or no comfort because their situation is so difficult or unpleasant. n-uncount oft N to/for n
These figures may look good on paper but are cold comfort to the islanders themselves.
