Comfort vs. Relax — What's the Difference?

Comfort (or being comfortable) is a sense of physical or psychological ease, often characterized as a lack of hardship. Persons who are lacking in comfort are uncomfortable, or experiencing discomfort.

To make lax or loose

To soothe in time of affliction or distress.

To make less severe or strict

To ease physically; relieve

To reduce in intensity; slacken

A condition or feeling of pleasurable physical ease or relief from pain or stress

To relieve from tension or strain

A condition of well-being, contentment, and security

To take one's ease; rest.

Solace or consolation in time of sorrow or distress

To become lax or loose.

Help; assistance

To become less severe or strict.

Something providing ease, convenience, or security

To become less restrained or tense.

A person or thing that brings consolation or mental ease

(transitive) To calm down.

Chiefly Southern & Lower Northern US A quilted bedcover; a comforter.

(transitive) To make something loose.

Contentment, ease.

(intransitive) To become loose.

Something that offers comfort.

(transitive) To make something less severe or tense.

A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.

(intransitive) To become less severe or tense.

A cause of relief or satisfaction.

(transitive) To make something (such as codes and regulations) more lenient.

(transitive) To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.

To become more lenient.

(transitive) To make comfortable. en

(transitive) To relieve (something) from stress.

(obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open.

(obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.

To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.

To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors.

To assist or help; to aid.

Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.

To impart strength and hope to; to encourage; to relieve; to console; to cheer.

To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.

Assistance; relief; support.

To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax.

Encouragement; solace; consolation in trouble; also, that which affords consolation.

To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.

A state of quiet enjoyment; freedom from pain, want, or anxiety; also, whatever contributes to such a condition.

To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.

A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.

Relaxation.

Unlawful support, countenance, or encouragement; as, to give aid and comfort to the enemy.

Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.

A state of being relaxed and feeling no pain;

Become less tense, rest, or take one's ease;

A feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment

Make less tight;

The act of consoling; giving relief in affliction;

Become loose or looser or less tight;

A freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state;

Cause to feel relaxed;

Give moral or emotional strength to

Become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner;

Lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate;

Make less severe or strict;

Become less severe or strict;

Make less active or fast;