comfortable
IPA: kˈʌmfɝtʌbʌɫ
noun
- (US) A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter.
adjective
- Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable.
- In a state of comfort and content.
- Confident; relaxed; not worried about someone or something.
- Amply sufficient, satisfactory.
- (obsolete) Comforting, providing comfort; consolatory.
- (obsolete) Strong; vigorous; valiant.
- (obsolete) Serviceable; helpful.
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Examples of "comfortable" in Sentences
- The sofa is snug and comfortable.
- I'm persuadable, but not currently comfortable.
- The most comfortable exemption is people's own house.
- The Hupda feel most at home and comfortable in the forests.
- It's stated goal was to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
- McAndrew: I had what you call a comfortable fastball that was live when I kept it down.
- Crocker earns what he describes as a "comfortable" living from his cut of YouTube profits through their Partnership Programme.
- But that said, yes, for some people consuming porn can be totally unproductive, and the only way to remain comfortable is to forego it.
- As the philosopher was well aware, there also existed what he referred to as the comfortable habits of mind by which women were regarded as second-class citizens.
- The South African Government said yesterday that when Mr. Mandela is fully recovered from TB he would be moved to what it called comfortable, secure accommodation where he would be able to see his family more freely.
- Due to the many hassles of modern air travel, my wife and I fly as absolutely little as we can but when we do fly we use Southwest Airlines whose coach seats are a bit more comfortable than other airlines we've flown using the word comfortable loosely.
- I take my stand, therefore, upon this incontestable fact, that the man of leisure becomes daily more reluctant to undergo fatigue, that he eagerly seeks for what he calls the comfortable, that is to say for every means of sparing himself the play and the waste of the organs.
- (for the general had chosen them) that they were each and all of them in their way comfortable, in the full English spirit of the word, and according to the French explanation of _comfortable_, given to us by the Duchess d'Abrantes, _convenablement bon_; but in compassion to Mr. Churchill's fastidious restlessness, she would now show him a perfection of