- 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.
English dictionary for students. 2013.