What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Comforter vs Curative - What's the difference?

comforter | curative | Related terms |

As a noun comforter

is a person who comforts someone who is suffering.

As a proper noun Comforter

is the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost.

As an adjective curative is

possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.

comforter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who comforts someone who is suffering.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let no comforter delight mine ear / But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
  • (US) A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt.
  • (old fashioned, mostly UK) A woollen scarf for winter.
  • * Popular Science Monthly
    • The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“
  • (UK, NZ, AU) A pacifier.

    • Synonyms

    * (person who comforts) consoler * (padded bed cover) duvet, (continental) quilt

    Anagrams

    *

    curative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.
    • The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the '50s was amazing at the time.

    See also

    * (l) * (l) ----