comfortable
/ˈkʌm(p)f.tə.bəl/
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Canada/ˈkʌmf.tə(ɹ).bəl/
comfortable adjective: providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable.
Adjective
comfortable (comparative comfortabler or more comfortable, superlative comfortablest or most comfortable)
- 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, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 179
- 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 comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings...1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans...
- 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 liar2002 October 8, “Comfortable Liar”, in Wonder What's Next, performed by Chevelle
- Amply sufficient, satisfactory.
- A comfortable income should suffice to consider oneself rich.
- The home team is ahead by a comfortable margin.
- 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 speeches, that he redeemed him e faucibus Erebi[…].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
- a comfortable provision made for their subsistence1699, John Dryden, Tales from Chaucer
- 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, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- 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 Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
Noun
comfortable (plural comfortables)
comfortable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
comfortable in Hindi
- providing physical comfort and ease
- आरामदेह ārāmdeh, सुविधाजनक suvidhājnak, सुखद sukhad
- in a state of comfort
- सुखद sukhad
- amply sufficient
- पर्याप्त paryāpt
comfortable in Tamil
- வசதியான, சுகமான, ஆறுதலான, இதமான
comfortable in Marathi
- providing physical comfort and ease
- आरामदायक ārāmdāyak
comfortable in Urdu
- providing physical comfort and ease
- آرام دہ ārām dih, سکون دہ sukūn dih
More languagesFewer languages
- comfortable in Bengali
- সুখী, আরামপ্রদ, সুখকর
- comfortable in Telugu
- చలువ caluva
- comfortable in Malayalam
- സുഖപ്രദമായ, സുഖകരമായ, സന്തോഷകരമായ, ആശ്വാസ്യം
- comfortable in Kannada
- ಹಾಯಾಗಿರುವ, ಆರಾಮವಾಗಿರುವ, ನೆಮ್ಮದಿಯಾಗಿರುವ, ಸುಖಕರ
- comfortable in Odia
- ଆରାମଦାଯ଼କ, ଆରାମଦାଯ଼କ |
- comfortable in Sanskrit
- सुख sukhá, इरावत् írāvat
- comfortable in Nepali
- सजिलो sajilo
- comfortable in Arabic
- مُرِيح murīḥ, وَثِير waṯīr, مُرْتَاح murtāḥ
- comfortable in Malay
- selesa
- comfortable in Persian
- راحت râhat
- comfortable in Thai
- สบาย sà-baai
Examples of comfortable in a sentence
- I'm not comfortable with 3.Nc3 in the Caro-Kann, so I decided to vary and play exd5.
- Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution.
- I love how squishy the pillow is—it’s so comfortable to sleep on.
Synonyms of comfortable
Antonyms
Forms of comfortable
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | comfortabler |
| comparative | more comfortable |
| superlative | comfortablest |
| superlative | most comfortable |
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | comftabul |
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | comfterble |
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | comftorble |
| Noun | |
| plural | comfortables |
Origin of comfortable
From Middle English comfortable, from Old French confortable, from conforter. By surface analysis, comfort + -able.
Words formed from comfortable
Phrases with comfortable
Questions about comfortable
- What does comfortable mean?
- Comfortable means providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable.
- What is comfortable in Hindi?
- Comfortable in Hindi is आरामदेह (ārāmdeh), सुविधाजनक (suvidhājnak), सुखद (sukhad). See Comfortable meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is comfortable?
- Comfortable can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce comfortable?
- Comfortable is pronounced /ˈkʌm(p)f.tə.bəl/.
Words near comfortable in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: comfortable (page history and authors); comfortable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); comfortable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); చలువ (Telugu) (page history and authors); comfortable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); comfortable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); comfortable (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); इरावत् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); सजिलो (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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