Usually means: Providing solace, warmth, and reassurance.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word comforting:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. comforting: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. comforting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. comforting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. comforting: Vocabulary.com
  5. Comforting, comforting: Wordnik
  6. comforting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. comforting: Wiktionary
  8. comforting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. comforting: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Comforting, comforting: Dictionary.com
  11. comforting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Comforting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. comforting: Rhymezone
  14. Comforting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. comforting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. comforting: Free Dictionary
  17. comforting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. comforting: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comforting: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comforting: Idioms

(Note: See comfort as well.)

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adjective:  Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.
noun:  The act of giving comfort.

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