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adjective

Comfortable adj.

Strong; vigorous; valiant. (Obs.) "Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death a while at the arm's end."

Serviceable; helpful. (Obs.) "Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her."

Affording or imparting comfort or consolation; able to comfort; cheering; as, a comfortable hope. "Kind words and comfortable." "A comfortable provision made for their subsistence."

In a condition of comfort; having comforts; not suffering or anxious; hence, contented; cheerful; as, to lead a comfortable life. "My lord leans wondrously to discontent; His comfortable temper has forsook him: He is much out of health."

Free, or comparatively free, from pain or distress; used of a sick person. (U. S.)

noun

Comfortable n. A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter; a comfort. (U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Comfortable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Comfortable" Quotes from Famous Books

... economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry, extensive government welfare measures, comfortable living standards, and high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark's new center-left coalition government will concentrate on reducing the persistent high unemployment rate and the budget deficit as well as following the previous government's ...

— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... asunder the cable of the Church of Christ, it would be the perplexity inevitable to a maintenance of domestic harmony under the celestial order. The first wife also distressed this adviser with a moving tale of her expulsion from a comfortable room into the ...

— The Lions of the Lord - A Tale of the Old West • Harry Leon Wilson

... had been at work to civilize and cultivate the wilderness. Yet even then there was another side to the picture; and Thorney, Ramsey, or Crowland would have seemed, for nine months every year, sad places enough to us comfortable folk of the nineteenth century. But men lived hard in those days, even the most high-born and luxurious nobles and ladies; under dark skies, in houses which we should think, from darkness, draught, and want of space, unfit for felons' ...

— The Hermits • Charles Kingsley

... himself out of his side-door. He did not want to meet Clark just then. He was not in a comfortable frame of mind. ...

— Santa Claus's Partner • Thomas Nelson Page

... a few hours, before labor commences, the child "falls" as it is called; that is to say, there is a subsidence—a dropping—of the womb lower down the abdomen. This is the reason why she feels lighter and more comfortable, and more inclined to take exercise, and why ...

— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

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