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| Main Entry: | comforting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheering |
| Synonyms: | curing, encouraging, freeing, invigorating, refreshing, softening, soothing, abating, allaying, alleviating, analeptic, assuaging, consolatory, consoling, health-giving, heart-warming, inspiriting, lightening, mitigating, reassuring, relieving, remedying, restoring, revitalizing, revivifying, solacing, succoring, sustaining, tranquilizing, upholding, warming |
| Antonyms: | depressing, distressing, disturbing, irritating, worrying, aggravating, dispiriting, upsetting |
| Main Entry: | comfort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make to feel better |
| Synonyms: | abate, aid, allay, alleviate, ameliorate, assist, assuage, bolster, buck up*, calm, cheer, compose, condole, confirm, console, delight, divert, ease, encourage, enliven, free, gladden, hearten, help, invigorate, mitigate, nourish, reassure, refresh, relieve, remedy, revive, salve, soften, solace, soothe, strengthen, stroke, succor, support, sustain, sympathize, uphold, commiserate with, grant respite, inspirit, lighten burden, make well, put at ease, quiet fears, reanimate, revitalize, upraise |
| Antonyms: | aggravate, annoy, bother, distress, exasperate, hurt, irritate, provoke, torment, torture, trouble, vex |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cheering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | encouraging |
| Synonyms: | auspicious, bright, comforting, hopeful, promising, propitious, heartening |
| Antonyms: | depressing, discouraging, dejecting, disheartening |
| Main Entry: | parental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having the quality or nature of a parent |
| Synonyms: | affectionate, benevolent, benign, comforting, devoted, fatherly, fond, forbearing, gentle, indulgent, kind, loving, maternal, motherly, paternal, protective, tender, warm, watchful, caring, matriarchal, patriarchal, sheltering, supportive |
| Main Entry: | relief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remedy, aid; relaxation |
| Synonyms: | abatement, allayment, alleviation, amelioration, appeasement, assistance, assuagement, balm, break, breather, cheer, comfort, comforting, consolation, contentment, cure, deliverance, diversion, ease, easement, extrication, fix, hand, happiness, help, letup, lift, lightening, load off one's mind, maintenance, mitigation, mollification, palliative, quick fix*, refreshment, release, remission, reprieve, respite, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, softening, solace, succor, support, sustenance |
| Notes: | relief (standing out) and intaglio (sunken) are opposites in art |
| Antonyms: | damage, hurt, injury, pain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tranquil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quiet, peaceful |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, amicable, balmy, calm, collected, comforting, composed, cool, easy, easygoing, even, even-tempered, gentle, halcyon, lenient, low, measured, mild, moderate, pacific, pastoral, patient, placid, pleasing, possessed, reasonable, restful, sedate, sedative, serene, smooth, sober, soft, soothing, stable, still, tame, temperate, undisturbed, unperturbed, unruffled, untroubled, whispering, at ease, at peace, hushed, murmuring, paradisiacal, poised, unexcitable, unexcited |
| Antonyms: | chaotic, loud, noisy, turbulent, violent, wild, unpeaceful |
| Main Entry: | motherly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | caring |
| Synonyms: | affectionate, careful, comforting, devoted, fond, gentle, kind, loving, maternal, nurturing, protective, supporting, sympathetic, tender, warm, watchful, caretaking, protecting, sheltering |
| Main Entry: | grateful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pleasing, nice |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, agreeable, comforting, congenial, delectable, delicious, delightful, desirable, favorable, good, gratifying, pleasant, pleasurable, refreshing, restful, restorative, satisfactory, satisfying, welcome, consoling, pleasureful, rejuvenating, renewing, restoring, solacing |
| Antonyms: | abusive, mean, rude, ungrateful |
| Main Entry: | accommodate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perform service |
| Synonyms: | afford, aid, arrange, assist, avail, benefit, bow, comfort, convenience, defer, favor, furnish, gratify, help, humor, indulge, oblige, pamper, please, provide, serve, settle, submit, suit, supply, support, sustain, yield |
| Antonyms: | bar, block, frustrate, hinder, impede, limit, obstruct, prevent, stop |
| Main Entry: | assure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | convince, relieve doubt |
| Synonyms: | bag*, comfort, encourage, hearten, inspire, persuade, reassure, satisfy, sell*, soothe, bet on, sell on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cheer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make someone feel happier |
| Synonyms: | animate, brighten, buck up*, buoy, comfort, console, elate, elevate, embolden, encourage, enliven, exhilarate, gladden, hearten, help, incite, perk up, pick up, solace, steel, strengthen, uplift, warm, brace up, give a lift, inspirit, let the sun shine in, put on cloud nine, put on top of the world, snap out of it, upraise |
| Antonyms: | bring down, depress, dishearten, make unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cherish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | care about deeply |
| Synonyms: | admire, adore, appreciate, clasp, coddle, comfort, cosset, cultivate, defend, dote on, embrace, encourage, enshrine, entertain, fancy, fondle, foster, guard, harbor, honor, hug, idolize, like, love, nourish, nurse, nurture, pet, preserve, prize, revere, reverence, safeguard, shelter, shield, support, sustain, treasure, value, venerate, worship, apprize, care for, cleave to, cling to, hold dear, hold in high esteem |
| Antonyms: | abandon, denounce, forsake, renounce, not care |
| Main Entry: | compose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | calm, bring under control |
| Synonyms: | adjust, allay, appease, arrange, assuage, balm, check, collect, comfort, console, contain, control, cool, ease, lessen, let up, lull, mitigate, moderate, modulate, pacify, placate, quell, quiet, reconcile, regulate, rein, relax, repress, resolve, restrain, settle, slacken, smother, soften, solace, soothe, still, suppress, temper, tranquilize, becalm, ease up, hold in, re-collect, simmer down, tune down |
| Antonyms: | agitate, anger, arouse, distress, excite, upset |
| Main Entry: | ease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | alleviate, help |
| Synonyms: | abate, aid, allay, ameliorate, appease, assist, assuage, calm, cheer, comfort, cure, disengage, doctor, expedite, facilitate, forward, free, further, improve, lessen, lift, lighten, meliorate, mitigate, moderate, mollify, nurse, pacify, palliate, promote, quiet, relax, release, relent, relieve, simplify, slacken, smooth, soften, soothe, speed, still, tranquilize, anesthetize, attend to, clear the way, disburden, let up on, make easier, open the door, run interference for, speed up, untighten |
| Antonyms: | annoy, increase, irritate, perplex, vex, worsen |
| Main Entry: | encourage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stimulate spiritually |
| Synonyms: | animate, applaud, boost, brighten, buck up*, buoy, cheer, cheer up, comfort, console, embolden, energize, enliven, excite, exhilarate, fortify, galvanize, gladden, goad, hearten, incite, inspire, instigate, praise, prick, push, rally, reassure, refresh, restore, rouse, spur, steel, stir, strengthen, sway, enhearten, give shot in arm, inspirit, prop up, psych up, revitalize, revivify |
| Antonyms: | dampen, deject, depress, deter, discourage, dissuade, dispirit, uninspire |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | encourage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give support; help |
| Synonyms: | abet, advance, advocate, aid, approve, assist, back, back up, befriend, bolster, boost, brace, comfort, console, countenance, develop, ease, egg on*, endorse, favor, fortify, forward, foster, further, go for*, improve, instigate, invite, pat on the back, prevail, promote, push, reassure, reinforce, relieve, sanction, second, serve, solace, spur, strengthen, subsidize, succor, support, sustain, uphold, get behind, give a leg up, pull for, root for, side with*, smile upon, subscribe to |
| Antonyms: | block, confuse, deter, discourage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | entertain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | amuse |
| Synonyms: | absorb, beguile, captivate, charm, cheer, comfort, crack up*, delight, distract, divert, elate, engross, enliven, enthrall, gladden, grab, gratify, humor, indulge, inspire, interest, occupy, pique, please, regale, relax, satisfy, slay, solace, stimulate, tickle, ecstasize, inspirit, knock dead, make merry, recreate |
| Antonyms: | bore, tire |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hearten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise someone's spirits |
| Synonyms: | animate, arouse, assure, buck up, buoy, cheer, comfort, console, embolden, encourage, energize, enliven, incite, inspire, rally, reassure, rouse, steel, stimulate, stir, strengthen, inspirit, revivify |
| Antonyms: | bring down, depress, discourage, dishearten |
| Main Entry: | lighten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reduce weight, load |
| Synonyms: | allay, alleviate, ameliorate, assuage, attenuate, buoy, change, comfort, cut down, decrease, dilute, disencumber, ease, empty, eradicate, extenuate, facilitate, free, jettison, lessen, levitate, mitigate, mollify, put off, reduce, relieve, remove, shift, take, thin, throw out, unburden, unload, disburden, make less, make lighter, pour out, take a load off, uplight, upraise |
| Antonyms: | burden, weigh down |
| Main Entry: | nourish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feed, care for |
| Synonyms: | attend, cherish, comfort, cultivate, encourage, foster, furnish, maintain, nurse, nurture, promote, provide, supply, support, sustain, tend |
| Antonyms: | abandon, deprive, neglect, starve |
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