1. in a comforting or consoling manner; - Example: "one part of a strange world should be given a comfortingly familiar form" [syn: comfortingly, consolingly]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
comfortingly
adv 1: in a comforting or consoling manner; "one part of a
strange world should be given a comfortingly familiar
form" [syn: comfortingly, consolingly]