(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you are doing something in ~, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
This will enable the audience to sit in ~ while watching the shows...
The shoe has padding around the collar, heel and tongue for added ~.
? dis~
N-UNCOUNT: oft in/for N
2.
Comfort is a style of life in which you have enough money to have everything you need.
Surely there is some way of ordering our busy lives so that we can live in ~ and find spiritual harmony too.
N-UNCOUNT: oft in N
3.
Comfort is what you feel when worries or unhappiness stop.
He welcomed the truce, but pointed out it was of little ~ to families spending Christmas without a loved one...
He will be able to take some ~ from inflation figures due on Friday...
He found ~ in Eva’s blind faith in him.
N-UNCOUNT
see also cold ~
4.
If you refer to a person, thing, or idea as a ~, you mean that it helps you to stop worrying or makes you feel less unhappy.
It’s a ~ talking to you...
Being able to afford a drink would be a ~ in these tough times.
N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N to n, it v-link N to-inf/-ing
5.
If you ~ someone, you make them feel less worried, unhappy, or upset, for example by saying kind things to them.
Ned put his arm around her, trying to ~ her.
= console
VERB: V n
6.
Comforts are things which make your life easier and more pleasant, such as electrical devices you have in your home.
She enjoys the material ~s married life has brought her...
Electricity provides us with warmth and light and all our modern home ~s...
N-COUNT: usu pl
see also creature ~s
7.
If you say that something is, for example, too close for ~, you mean you are worried because it is closer than you would like it to be.
The bombs fell in the sea, many too close for ~...
Although crimes against visitors were falling, the levels of crime were still too high for ~.
PHRASE: PHR after v, v-link PHR