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comfort is a noun and verb meaning "a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain". It carries 9 recorded senses.
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”
a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment
the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction
“his presence was a consolation to her”
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”
satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing
“his friendship was a comfort”
“a padded chair was one of the room's few comforts”
assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal
“it gave comfort to the enemy”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for comfort come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.