comfortable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English comfortable, from Old French confortable, from conforter. By surface analysis, comfort + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: comfortabler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more comfortable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: comfortablest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most comfortable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: comfterble / comftorble
pos: adj
tags: alternative
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form: comfortables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: comfterble / comftorble
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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Senses:
gloss: Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable.
pos: adj
examples: This is the most comfortable bed I’ve ever slept in.
We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
gloss: In a state of comfort and content.
pos: adj
examples: What a great guestroom! I'll be quite comfortable here.
A great bargain also had been[…]the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
gloss: Confident; relaxed; not worried about someone or something.
pos: adj
examples: Time spent waiting offshore / The calm before the storm / My take from you is simple / So heal your fear / To heal your fear / You're such a comfortable liar
gloss: Amply sufficient, satisfactory.
pos: adj
examples: A comfortable income should suffice to consider oneself rich.
The home team is ahead by a comfortable margin.
When Hape sauntered over for a try after only three minutes it looked as if England were destined for a comfortable victory, but Georgia are made of sterner stuff, as they showed when running Scotland close in Invercargill last week.
gloss: Comforting, providing comfort; consolatory.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 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[…].
a comfortable provision made for their subsistence
The commanding officer readily granted a reprieve, and Louis, who, on the arrival of this letter, had forborne to communicate its contents to Theodore, left it should torture him with false hope, now hastened to him with this comfortable news.
gloss: Strong; vigorous; valiant.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death a while at the arm's end.
gloss: Serviceable; helpful.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.
gloss: A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter.
pos: noun
tags: US
Antonyms: comfortless
uncomfortable
Related words: comforter
discomfort
Derived words: comfortability
comfortable as an old shoe
comfortable in one's own skin
comfortableness
comfortably
comfy
overcomfortable
semicomfortable
slip into something more comfortable
supercomfortable
uncomfortable
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