Comfortable Meaning
/ˈkʌm(p)f.tə.bəl/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjProviding physical comfort and ease; agreeable.
adjIn a state of comfort and content.
Sentence Examples
It's so comfortable here, I really feel at home.
The trip back was very comfortable.
He sat down on the comfortable sofa and fell asleep.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
This old, worn sofa is so ____ that I often fall asleep there.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The new sofa in the living room is very ____ to sit on tonight.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English comfortable, from Old French confortable, from conforter. By surface analysis, comfort + -able.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove."
— 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 179:
"A great bargain also had been[…]the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair."
— 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
"Time spent waiting offshore / The calm before the storm / My take from you is simple / So heal your fear / To heal your fear / You're such a comfortable liar"
— 2002 October 8, “Comfortable Liar”, in Wonder What's Next, performed by Chevelle:
"When Hape sauntered over for a try after only three minutes it looked as if England were destined for a comfortable victory, but Georgia are made of sterner stuff, as they showed when running Scotland close in Invercargill last week."
— 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:
"he was going to make away himself; but meeting by chance his master Plotinus, who, perceiving by his distracted looks all was not well, urged him to confess his grief; which when he had heard, he used such comfortable speeches, that he redeemed him e faucibus Erebi[…]."
— 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection ii:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
This old, worn sofa is so ____ that I often fall asleep there.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The new sofa in the living room is very ____ to sit on tonight.