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Comfort vs Uncomforted - What's the difference?

comfort | uncomforted |

As a noun comfort

is contentment, ease.

As a verb comfort

is to relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.

As an adjective uncomforted is

not comforted.

comfort

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Contentment, ease.
    • Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.
  • Something that offers comfort.
    • the comforts of home
  • A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
    • We still have the spare tire? That's a comfort at least.
  • A cause of relief or satisfaction.
    • 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

    * austerity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
    • Rob comforted Aaron because he was lost and very sad.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Light excelleth in comforting the spirits of men.
  • To make comfortable. (rfex)
  • (obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
    • (Wyclif)
  • * Hooker
    • God's own testimony doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.
  • (obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I cannot help the noble chevalier: / God comfort him in this necessity!

    Synonyms

    * besoothe

    Derived terms

    * cold comfort * comfort woman * comfortable * comforter * comforting * discomfort * letter of comfort ----

    uncomforted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not comforted.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1883, author=Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin, title=Miss Prudence, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Shall you never go with any one; shall you and I, so near to each other, with so much to keep us together, go always uncomforted . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Robert W. Chambers, title=Ailsa Paige, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And the two women mourned, uncomforted . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1913, author=Arthur Christopher Benson, title=The Silent Isle, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I hope that my philosopher may yet walk on the hills with me, if only for the sake of the love I bear the green valleys; and when I see the great stream passing silently from translucent pool to pool, overhung by rowans and sun-warmed rocks, I shall be glad to think that I have walked on the heights where it was gathered and drawn, and that I have heard it talk hoarsely to itself, cold and uncomforted , among the bleak and dripping stones. }}