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Comfortable
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- 1 Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable.
"This is the most comfortable bed I’ve ever slept in."
- 2 In a state of comfort and content.
"What a great guestroom! I'll be quite comfortable here."
- 3 Confident; relaxed; not worried about someone or something.
- 4 Amply sufficient, satisfactory.
"A comfortable income should suffice to consider oneself rich."
- 5 Comforting, providing comfort; consolatory. obsolete
"he was going to make away himself; but meeting by chance his master Plotinus, who, perceiving by his distracted looks all was not well, urged him to confess his grief; which when he had heard, he used such comfortable speeches, that he redeemed him e faucibus Erebi[…]."
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- 6 Strong; vigorous; valiant. obsolete
"Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death a while at the arm's end."
- 7 Serviceable; helpful. obsolete
"Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her."
- 1 providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (‘comfy’ is informal) wordnet
- 2 free from stress or conducive to mental ease; having or affording peace of mind wordnet
- 3 in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich wordnet
- 4 sufficient to provide comfort wordnet
- 5 having a wide margin wordnet
- 1 A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter. US
Etymology
From Middle English comfortable, from Old French confortable, from conforter. By surface analysis, comfort + -able.
From Middle English comfortable, from Old French confortable, from conforter. By surface analysis, comfort + -able.
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