different between joy vs comfort

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: joi, IPA^(key): /d???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English joye, borrowed from Old French joie, from Late Latin gaudia, neuter plural (mistaken as feminine singular) of Latin gaudium (“joy”), from gaud?re (“to be glad, rejoice”). Doublet of jo. Displaced native Middle English wunne (from Old English wynn), Middle English hight, hught (“joy, hope”) (from Old English hyht), Middle English rot, root (“joy, delight”) (from Old English r?t), while partially replacing Middle English blisse (“joy, bliss”) (from Old English blisse, bl?þs). Middle English gleo (“joy, glee”) (from Old English gl?ow, gl?w (“glee”)) was at first displaced but later resurrected as English glee.

Noun

joy (countable and uncountable, plural joys)

1. A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.

2. Anything that causes such a feeling.
   • A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

3. Luck or success; a positive outcome.
   • 2012, Colin Owen, Colin's Shorts (volume 2, page 65)

     Grant had no joy with taking a nap, so he began to systematically feel if everything was working: fingers and toes, etc.

   • 2012, Robert Stansbridge, Bia's Wedding (page 4)

     'Rob? It's Gary. Are you having any joy with this trip to Bali?' 'No joy at all, mate. I reckon Bali's out for the foreseeable future. […]

4. (obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.

Antonyms

• (feeling of happiness): infelicity, joylessness, unhappiness, unjoy

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English joyen, jo?en, joien, from Old French jöir, from the noun (see above).

Verb

joy (third-person singular simple present joys, present participle joying, simple past and past participle joyed)

1. (intransitive) To feel joy, to rejoice.
   • 1829, Walter Scott, Anne of Geierstein, Edinburgh: Cadell, Volume 3, Chapter 8, p. 222,^[2]

     I joy to see you wear around your neck the holy relic I bestowed on you;—but what Moorish charmlet is that you wear beside it?

   • 1885, Richard Francis Burton (translator), The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 18, “Tale of the Portress,” p. 178,^[3]

     I swore readily enough to this and he joyed with exceeding joy and embraced me round the neck while love for him possessed my whole heart.

2. (transitive, archaic) To enjoy.
   • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,^[4]

     I haue my wish, in that I ioy thy sight,

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 4, Canto I, p. 5,^[5]

     For from the time that Scudamour her bought,

     In perilous fight, she neuer ioyed day […] .

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9, lines 1164-1168,^[6]

     Is this the Love, is this the recompence

     Of mine to thee, ingrateful Eve, exprest

     Immutable when thou wert lost, not I,

     Who might have liv’d and joyd immortal bliss,

     Yet willingly chose rather Death with thee:

3. (transitive, obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 405,^[7]

     Evil like Us they shun, and covet Good;

     Abhor the Poison, and receive the Food.

     Like Us they love or hate: like Us they know,

     To joy the Friend, or grapple with the Foe.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
   • 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Act I, Scene 2,^[8]

     Yet neither pleasure’s art can joy my spirits,

     Nor yet the other’s distance comfort me.

Uzbek

Etymology

From Persian ???? (jây).

Noun

joy (plural joylar)

1. place

Derived terms

• joylashmoq

English

Etymology

The verb is from Middle English conforten, from Old French conforter, from Late Latin confort? (“to strengthen greatly”), itself from Latin con- (“together”) + fortis (“strong”).

The noun is from Middle English confort, from Old French cunfort, confort, from the stem of Late Latin confort?. It replaced Old English frofor, Middle English frovre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?m.f?t/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /?k?m.f?t/
• (General American) enPR: k?m'f?rt, IPA^(key): /?k?m.f?t/, [?k???.f?t]
• (obsolete) enPR: k?mfôrt', IPA^(key): /k?m?f??t/

Noun

comfort (countable and uncountable, plural comforts)

1. Contentment, ease.

2. Something that offers comfort.

3. A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.

4. A cause of relief or satisfaction.

Synonyms

• liss

Antonyms

• (contentment, ease): austerity

Translations

Verb

comfort (third-person singular simple present comforts, present participle comforting, simple past and past participle comforted)

1. (transitive) To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
2. (transitive) To make comfortable. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     God's own testimony […] doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.

4. (obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.

Synonyms

• besoothe

Translations

Derived terms

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch confoort, from Old French confort.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /k?m?f??r/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /k?m?f?r(t)/
• Hyphenation: com?fort

Noun

comfort n (plural comforts, diminutive comfortje n)

1. Physical comfort, ease.

Derived terms

• comfortabel
• ligcomfort
• rijcomfort
• zitcomfort