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comforting
adjective as in cheering
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abating, allaying, alleviating, assuaging, consoling, curing, freeing, inspiriting, invigorating, lightening, mitigating, relieving, remedying, restoring, revitalizing, revivifying, softening, solacing, succoring, sustaining, tranquilizing, upholding, warming
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Example Sentences
It’s mostly been in chronological order, and sometimes just in the background while she’s working on something else but craving the show’s comforting familiarity.
Goodall also witnessed chimpanzees embracing and comforting each other after the death of a loved one.
Great Big Game Show – My wife and I love game shows for their low-stakes, comforting fun, so discovering the Great Big Game Show was a no-brainer.
They mean, “I put on episodes I’ve seen before and it’s comforting in a profoundly, sleepy way.”
And in Paul Thomas Anderson’s sprawling contemporary epic “One Battle After Another,” it’s startling just how comforting a cinematic hand on the shoulder can be.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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