comfort
/ˈkʌm.fɚt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.41 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Sleep in comfort with our new mattress."
- "But all was in vain: For having ranged up and down the Woods for ſome days, without finding the leaſt comfort to their hungry deſires, they were forced to return again unto the River. […] At laſt they arrived at the Coaſt of the Sea, where they found ſome comfort and relief to their former miſeries, and alſo means to ſeek more."
- "How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!"
- "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."
- "I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur"
- "Coordinate term: glimmer (2020s, neologism; a happy moment)"
Etymology
From Middle English comfort, from Old French cunfort, confort, from the stem of Late Latin confortō. It replaced Old English frofor, Middle English frovre.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *bʰerǵʰ-, comfort, cunfort, confortō, comforten, conforter
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkʌm.fɚt/
- British English: /ˈkʌm.fət/