Comfort, Comfit, Discomfort, Discomfit

Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.” –Tom Stoppard
Comfort functions as a noun, and verb. Comfort is pain, unease; a state of physical ease and freedom from pain or constraint.
When you’re comforted, it means you are relieved of pain, you are free from constrains. Comfort is the alleviation from grief, distress; solace, consolation, fellow feelings, commiseration.

When you are comforted (verb), you are eased from loss, grief, distress and such other feelings and emotions. You may have family and friends who alleviate you from feelings of loss, feelings of grief, and feelings of distress. If you are comforted when in a state of personal loss, possibly you will be unburdened.

When you travel, you wish to stay in a place of comfort, unless you are backpacking, and exploring the world. What is comforting to you may not be comforting to others. The opposite of comfort is discomfort. Some people are bent to give discomfort to others, and gloat over others discomforting conditions, and discomforting situations.

The derivatives of comfort are comforts, comforting, comforted, comforter, comfortingly, and discomfort, discomforts, discomforting, discomfortingly. Whether you like home-cooked food or exotic cuisine, you may some dishes that give you comfort called ‘comfort food’. Comfort food is the result of one’s family recipes, local and reginal conditions, climatic and religious reasons.

Jamie’s Comfort Food: 100 Ultimate Recipes – Treat the One’s You Love is written by the popular British chef Jamie Oliver.
Comfit is a noun. It refers a sweet consisting of a nut, seed, or other centre coated in sugar.

Comfits are a confectionary.
Comfits are sweets.
Comfits are dried fruits, nuts and spices coated with sugar.
Comfits are made of nuts, dried fruits,
Cashew comfits, ground comfits, almond comfits serve as snacks, and as gift items.

Comfits are available in various colours: licorice (liquorice) comfits, or torpedoes are multi-coloured. Comfit as a verb refers to preserving something dry with sugar; indicates to preserving something by drying with sugar. The variants of comfit are comfits, comfiting, and comfited.

In digital era, comfit (singular) and comfits (plural) refers to a computerised image of a suspected produced by police.
Discomfiting is a verb, gerund, present participle meaning to make someone feel uneasy, embarrassed, abash; causing discomfort unnerving.

In arranged marriages, often the girls endure discomfiting situations; it may comfortthe parents to find a bride or bridegroom of their choice to their children but the children go through the discomfiting situation with a hope that in the end everything will be comforting.