comfortable

Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable.

Adjective

  1. Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable.
    • 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. - 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII,...
  2. In a state of comfort and content.
    • 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...
  3. Confident; relaxed; not worried about someone or something.
    • 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 - 2002 October 8, “Comfortable Liar”, in Wonder What's Next,...
  4. Amply sufficient, satisfactory.
    • 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...
  5. Comforting, providing comfort; consolatory.
    • 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...
    • a comfortable provision made for their subsistence - 1699, John Dryden, Tales from Chaucer:
    • 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...
  6. Strong; vigorous; valiant.
    • Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death a while at the arm's end. - c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies,...
  7. Serviceable; helpful.
    • Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her. - c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First...

Origin

From Middle English comfortable, from Old French confortable, from conforter. By surface analysis, comfort + -able.

Forms

comfortabler more comfortable comfortablest most comfortable comfterble / comftorble

Synonyms

comforting comfy cozy eathful restful snug cushy safe

Antonyms

comfortless uncomfortable

Related

comforter discomfort

Derived

comfortability comfortable as an old shoe comfortable in one's own skin comfortableness comfortably comfy overcomfortable semicomfortable slip into something more comfortable supercomfortable uncomfortable

Noun

  1. A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter.

Forms

comfortables comfterble / comftorble