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comfortable as an old shoe

comfortable as an old shoe adjective: comfortably familiar.

Adjective

comfortable as an old shoe (comparative more comfortable than an old shoe, no superlative)

  1. (figuratively, no-superlative, simile) Comfortably familiar.

Forms of comfortable as an old shoe

comparativemore comfortable than an old shoe

Questions about comfortable as an old shoe

What does comfortable as an old shoe mean?
Comfortable as an old shoe means comfortably familiar.
What part of speech is comfortable as an old shoe?
Comfortable as an old shoe is an adjective.

Words near comfortable as an old shoe in the dictionary

  1. comfort-eating
  2. comfort-eats
  3. comfortabilities
  4. comfortability
  5. comfortable
  6. comfortable as an old shoe
  7. comfortable in one's own skin
  8. comfortable in one's skin
  9. comfortableness
  10. comfortablenesses
  11. comfortabler

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