Comforter vs Comforted - What's the difference?
comforter | comforted |
A person who comforts someone who is suffering.
* Shakespeare
(US) A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt.
(old fashioned, mostly UK) A woollen scarf for winter.
* Popular Science Monthly
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(comfort)
Contentment, ease.
Something that offers comfort.
A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
A cause of relief or satisfaction.
To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
* Francis Bacon
To make comfortable. (rfex)
(obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
* Hooker
(obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.
* Shakespeare
As a proper noun comforter
is (christianity) the holy spirit, the holy ghost.As a verb comforted is
(comfort).comforter
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let no comforter delight mine ear / But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
- The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight.
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Synonyms
* (person who comforts) consoler * (padded bed cover) duvet, (continental) quiltAnagrams
*comforted
English
Verb
(head)comfort
English
Noun
(en noun)- Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.
- the comforts of home
- We still have the spare tire? That's a comfort at least.
- The outcome of the peace negotiations in Moscow in 1940 was a heavy blow to the young nation, but in the same time a great comfort : at least the independency was preserved.
Synonyms
*Antonyms
* austerityVerb
(en verb)- Rob comforted Aaron because he was lost and very sad.
- Light excelleth in comforting the spirits of men.
- (Wyclif)
- God's own testimony doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.
- I cannot help the noble chevalier: / God comfort him in this necessity!