comfortable adj

1 providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal); "comfortable clothes"; "comfortable suburban houses"; "made himself comfortable in an armchair"; "the antihistamine made her feel more comfortable"; "are you comfortable?"; "feeling comfy now?" [syn: comfy] [ant: uncomfortable]

2 free from stress or conducive to mental ease; having or affording peace of mind; "was settled in a comfortable job, one for which he was well prepared"; "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" [ant: uncomfortable]

3 more than adequate; "the home team had a comfortable lead"

4 sufficient to provide comfort; "a comfortable salary"

5 in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich; "they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards"; "easy living"; "a prosperous family"; "his family is well-situated financially"; "well-to-do members of the community" [syn: easy, prosperous, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do]

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

1. Providing comfort; agreeable

   This is the most comfortable bed I've ever slept in

2. Leaving little risk

   The home team is ahead by a comfortable margin

Synonyms

• comfy

Antonyms

• uncomfortable

Related terms

• comfort
• comforter
• comforting
• discomfort

Translations

• Czech: pohodlný
• Danish: bekvem (1), komfortabel (1,2), solid (2)
• Dutch: comfortabel (1,2)
• Finnish: mukava
• German: komfortabel (1,2), bequem (1)
• Greek: άνετος
• Hebrew: נוח (noakh) , נוחה (nokha) (1,2)
• Italian: confortevole
• Russian: удобный, уютный
• Scots: couthie
• Spanish: confortable, cómodo
• Scottish Gaelic: comhfhurtail, socrach, socair, sòlasach
• Telugu: సౌకర్యవంతమైన (saukaryavamtamaina)
• Turkish: rahat

Comfort may mean:

Places:

• Comfort, Texas
• Comfort Township, Minnesota
• Old Point Comfort, Virginia
• Point Comfort, Texas

Persons:

• Alex Comfort, a British medical professional, anarchist, pacifist, and writer
• Charles Comfort, a Canadian painter, sculptor, teacher, writer, and administrator
• Louis Comfort Tiffany, an American artist and designer
• Nathaniel C. Comfort, an American historian
• Ray Comfort, a New Zealand-born minister and evangelist
• Comfort Freeman, a Liberian Lutheran activist

United States Navy ships:

• USS Comfort (AH-3) (1917 – 1921)
• USS Comfort (AH-6) (1943 – 1946)
• USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) (1976 – )

Others:

• Comfort (album), an album by the rock group Failure
• Comfort (Fabric Softener), a Unilever fabric softener
• ComfortDelGro Corporation, a listed transportation company in Singapore
• Comfort Air, an airline based in Germany
• Comfort food
• Comfort noise, artificial background noise used in radio and wireless communications to fill the silent time in a transmission
• Comfort object, an object used to provide psychological comfort
• Comfort Stand Records, an American independent record label
• Comfort women, a euphemism for women who were forced to work as sex slaves in Japanese-occupied countries during World War II
• Comfort zone, the term used to denote a type of mental conditioning resulting in artificially created mental boundaries, within which an individual derives a sense of security
• Southern Comfort, an alcoholic drink made with peaches
• Thermal Comfort, a field of specialization in building indoor environment
• Toyota Comfort, a taxicab popular in Japan and Hong Kong

See also

• Comforter

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