Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - comforting

If you say that something is comforting, you mean it makes you feel less worried or unhappy. My mother had just died and I found the book very comforting... In the midst of his feelings of impotence, a comforting thought arrived. ADJ • comfortingly ‘Everything’s under control here,’ her mother said comfortingly. ‘You’ve nothing to worry about.’ ADV: usu ADV with v, ADV adj, also ADV with cl