comforting

Definition for comforting

adjective as in cheering

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encouraging, reassuring, refreshing, soothing

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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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analeptic, consolatory, health-giving, heart-warming

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Goodall also witnessed chimpanzees embracing and comforting each other after the death of a loved one.

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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.

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They mean, “I put on episodes I’ve seen before and it’s comforting in a profoundly, sleepy way.”

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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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Each bite tastes like a season in itself — sweet, comforting and stubbornly insistent that summer doesn’t have to leave all at once.

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