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Comfortable   /kˈəmfərtəbəl/   Listen
Comfortable

adjective
1.
Providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief ('comfy' is informal).  Synonym: comfy.  "Comfortable suburban houses" , "Made himself comfortable in an armchair" , "The antihistamine made her feel more comfortable" , "Are you comfortable?" , "Feeling comfy now?"
2.
Free from stress or conducive to mental ease; having or affording peace of mind.  "The comfortable thought that nothing could go wrong" , "Was comfortable in his religious beliefs" , "She's a comfortable person to be with" , "She felt comfortable with her fiance's parents"
3.
More than adequate.
4.
Sufficient to provide comfort.
5.
In fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich.  Synonyms: easy, prosperous, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do.  "Easy living" , "A prosperous family" , "His family is well-situated financially" , "Well-to-do members of the community"



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"Comfortable" Quotes from Famous Books



... would. Poor child, I do hope you will be comfortable. It's perfectly horrid to send ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers
... was all fixed up comfortable between us, mistress, maybe as you could break it gently to him so as he wouldn't ...
— Six Plays • Florence Henrietta Darwin
... smile), I must talk like this. I shall do everything I can to make you comfortable, and I hope nobody, and especially not the poor children, will notice ...
— The Title - A Comedy in Three Acts • Arnold Bennett
... of food taken, and the bowels are irregular in their action, as well as unhealthy in their secretion. Loss of appetite, too, though a frequent is by no means a constant attendant on infantile indigestion, but is replaced sometimes by an unnatural craving, in which the child never seems so comfortable as when sucking. It sucks much, but the milk evidently does not sit well upon the stomach; for soon after sucking, the child begins to cry and appears to be in much pain until it has vomited. The rejection of the milk is followed by immediate relief; but at the same time by the desire ...
— The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases • Charles West, M.D.
... news, regardless of sherry and cold tongue, he himself got in his boat, leaving his passengers in an excited frame of mind, but rather comfortable on the whole, and returned to the teak bosom ...
— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise


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