comfort

/ˈkʌmfərt/

意味: 快適さ、安心感、慰め

例文: Momo found ultimate comfort inside a laundry basket.
　　  モモが洗濯かごの中に究極の快適を見出した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: comfort food(コンフォートフード), comfort zone(快適ゾーン), comfort level(快適レベル)

定義: 快適さや安心感を与える状態や感情のことです。身体的、精神的にリラックスできる状態を指します。たとえば、柔らかい椅子に座ったり、心地よい音楽を聴いたりすることが含まれます。また、困難な状況で誰かを慰めたり、安心させたりすることも「comfort」と言います。

comfortは約40,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain
Noun: a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment
Noun: the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction
Noun: a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state
Noun: satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing
Noun: bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
Noun: assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal
Verb: give moral or emotional strength to
Verb: lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She found comfort in the warm blanket.(彼女は暖かい毛布に安心感を見つけた。)
Comfort is important during stressful times.(ストレスの多い時に快適さは大切だ。)
The chair offers great comfort for long hours.(その椅子は長時間座っても快適だ。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he is a man who enjoys his comfort
Noun: she longed for the comfortableness of her armchair
Noun: his presence was a consolation to her
Noun: a life of luxury and ease
Noun: he had all the material comforts of this world
Noun: his friendship was a comfort
Noun: a padded chair was one of the room’s few comforts
Noun: it gave comfort to the enemy
Verb: ease the pain in your legs

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): comfort, comfortableness, comforter, consolation, console, ease, puff, quilt, solace, soothe

Antonyms(反意語): discomfort

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): affluence, aid, bedclothes, condition, gratification, pleasure, relief, relieve

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): absolution, accommodation, anchorage, astigmatism, atmosphere, atonicity, automation, bedroll, bedspread, blanket, boost, brutalization, celibacy, circumstance, climate, comfort, condemnation, consolation, curvature, danger, decline, deification, delight, despair, difficulty, discomfort, dishabille, disorderliness, diversification, diversity, dominance, dryness, ease, economic condition, emptiness, encapsulation, enjoyment, ennoblement, environmental condition, exoneration, eye condition, facilitation, financial condition, frizz, fruition, fullness, guilt, hairlessness, hand, health, homelessness, hopefulness, hospitalization, hyalinization, identification, immunity, impaction, impropriety, improvement, impurity, iniquity, innocence, ionization, irradiation, lactosuria, laxness, leakiness, lift, light, lubrication, malady, mattress cover, mechanization, mercy, mode, motivation, mummification, mutism, nakedness, need, niche, noise conditions, nomination, normality, orderliness, participation, physical condition, place, pleasantness, polarization, prepossession, preservation, prognathism, protuberance, psychological state, purity, quality of life, quilt, recourse, regularization, reinstatement, relief, repair, rustication, rustiness, safety, sanitary condition, saturation, scandalization, self-help, serration, service, sexual pleasure, silence, situation, ski conditions, soothe, soundness, standardization, stigmatism, submission, subservience, support, susceptibility, tension, thanks, throw, tilth, unsoundness, unsusceptibility, urbanization, vacuolization, virginity, way, wetness

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): calm, consolation, convenience, coziness, eiderdown, lap of luxury, patchwork, relief, solace, still

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: comfort, comfortable, comforter, consolable, consolation, consolatory, console, easement, easing, quilt, solace, solacement

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: law, psychology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive, emotional

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): co

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anticipation, joy, positive, trust