Comforting Synonyms and Antonyms
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Synonyms for Comforting
Giving courage, confidence or hope
(Archaic) To belittle; minimize; disparage
To return to use, currency, activity, or notice:
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Which consoles.
Allay is defined as to settle or calm someone or something.
The definition of ameliorate is to improve or make better.
To make new or as if new again; make young, fresh, or strong again; bring back into good condition
To give new life to:
To create (a musical or literary work)
To cause (a group) to end a rebellion or other violent action.
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Giving impetus or spirit; animating, encouraging.
To give life or energy to.
To operate or work (against)
That reassures; causing comfort or confidence.
Pleasantly fresh and different:
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Of, or relating to therapy.
The definition of supportive is someone or something who provides emotional help and encouragement.
To alleviate; assuage:
To comfort, cheer, or console, as in trouble or sorrow.
To share or understand the feelings or ideas of another
Support is defined as to provide comfort, encouragement or financial assistance to someone.
To give pleasure to, now specif., sexually
To lessen the pain or severity of without actually curing; alleviate; ease
To refrain from; avoid or resist. Used with can or cannot:
To make glad:
To make more lively, cheerful or interesting.
To calm means to soothe and pacify someone to make him free of stress, or to become free of stress yourself.
(Intransitive) To offer condolences jointly with; express sympathy with.
analeptic
That restores or stimulates health.
Antonyms for Comforting
Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.
cheering
Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
cheering
Dismal; dreary:
Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening.
To exasperate is defined as to cause someone to become greatly irritated or annoyed.
The definition of provoke is to push something to happen, or to annoy.
To distress, afflict, or plague
To annoy, harass, or tease
To worry or trouble, esp. with petty annoyances; harass, pester, etc.
(Intransitive) To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
To trouble is to cause pain, distress or worry.
To undermine, impede, or damage.
To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
The definition of afflict is to cause great physical or mental pain or agony or to create for someone a curse to bear.
Words Related to Comforting
Of, relating to, or acting on the sympathetic nervous system:
(Now regional) To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of. [from 16th c.]
Increase is defined as to become bigger or greater.
Find another word for comforting. In this page you can discover 84 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for comforting, like: heartening, encouraging, consoling, lessening, warming, reviving, cheering, consolatory, succoring, assuaging and enduring.
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