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comfortsome

comfortsome adjective: characterised or marked by comfort.

Adjective

comfortsome (comparative more comfortsome, superlative most comfortsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by comfort.
    • And hunt for comfortsome creatures / And find none but sharp barbs and [get entangled] - [...]1984, Paul Oliver, Songsters and Saints
    • All 1st years who want to can live in a variety of highly comfortsome halls.2004, Jonathan Rich, Push Guide to Which University

Adverb

comfortsome (comparative more comfortsome, superlative most comfortsome)

  1. (nonstandard, regional) In a comfortsome or comforting manner; comfortably.
    • "[...] Dragoon her a tent and as many peones as it takes to set her up comfortsome.”2012, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Deadly Flood

Forms of comfortsome

Adjective
comparativemore comfortsome
superlativemost comfortsome
Adverb
comparativemore comfortsome
superlativemost comfortsome

Origin of comfortsome

From comfort + -some.

Questions about comfortsome

What does comfortsome mean?
Comfortsome means characterised or marked by comfort.
What part of speech is comfortsome?
Comfortsome can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near comfortsome in the dictionary

  1. comfortress
  2. comfortresses
  3. comfortroot
  4. comfortroots
  5. comforts
  6. comfortsome
  7. comfortwear
  8. comfrey
  9. comfreys
  10. comftabul
  11. comfterble

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