comforting

comforting
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. cheering, encouraging, consoling, inspiriting, heartening, warming, solacing, consolatory, sustaining, reassuring, refreshing, upholding, succoring, relieving, soothing, assuaging, lightening, mitigating, alleviating, allaying, abating, softening, remedying, analeptic, curing, therapeutic, restoring, releasing, revitalizing, revivifying, tranquilizing, supportive; see also sympathetic .
Ant. disturbing*, distressing, upsetting.

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  • comforting — adjective Giving comfort. Your comforting words help ease my mind …   Wiktionary

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