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Comfortable

adjective

Providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief ('comfy' is informal). Synonym: comfy. "Comfortable suburban houses" , "Made himself comfortable in an armchair" , "The antihistamine made her feel more comfortable" , "Are you comfortable?" , "Feeling comfy now?" Antonym: uncomfortable.

Free from stress or conducive to mental ease; having or affording peace of mind. "The comfortable thought that nothing could go wrong" , "Was comfortable in his religious beliefs" , "She's a comfortable person to be with" , "She felt comfortable with her fiance's parents" Antonym: uncomfortable.

More than adequate.

Sufficient to provide comfort.

In fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich. Synonyms: easy, prosperous, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do. "Easy living" , "A prosperous family" , "His family is well-situated financially" , "Well-to-do members of the community"

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... 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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