comfortable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: com=fort=a=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

comfortable, a. [OF. confortable.].

•  Strong; vigorous; valiant.  Wyclif.  [1913 Webster]

  "Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death a while at the arm's end."  [1913 Webster]
•  Serviceable; helpful.  [1913 Webster]

  "Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her."  [1913 Webster]
•  Affording or imparting comfort or consolation; able to comfort; cheering; as, a comfortable hope.  Cowper.  [1913 Webster]

  "A comfortable provision made for their subsistence."  [1913 Webster]
•  In a condition of comfort; having comforts; not suffering or anxious; hence, contented; cheerful; as, to lead a comfortable life.  [1913 Webster]

  "My lord leans wondrously to discontent;
  His comfortable temper has forsook him:
  He is much out of health."  [1913 Webster]
•  Free, or comparatively free, from pain or distress; -- used of a sick person.  [1913 Webster]

comfortable, n. 

 A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter; a comfort.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

comfortable, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 ministering to comfort; giving ease (a comfortable pair of shoes).
2 free from discomfort; at ease (I'm quite comfortable thank you).
3 colloq. having an adequate standard of living; free from financial worry.
4 having an easy conscience (did not feel comfortable about refusing him).
5 with a wide margin (a comfortable win).
--n. US a warm quilt.

Derivative

comfortableness n. comfortably adv.

Etymology

ME f. AF confortable (as COMFORT)

THESAURUS

comfortable

abounding in riches, acceptable, accepting, adequate, affluent, agreeable, amiable, at ease, big-rich, carefree, charmed, cheerful, comfortably situated, comforter, comforting, comfy, commodious, competent, complacent, composed, congenial, consoling, content, contented, convenient, cordial, cozy, cushioned, cushiony, cushy, decent, delighted, disgustingly rich, easeful, easy, easygoing, enjoyable, enough, eupeptic, euphoric, exhilarated, fat, favorably impressed with, festal, flush, friendly, frightfully rich, glad, gladsome, grateful, gratified, gratifying, happy, holiday, homelike, homely, homey, homish, in clover, in funds, in good case, in luxury, in the money, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, insouciant, intimate, intrigued, likeable, lived-in, loaded, luxurious, made of money, moneyed, of good comfort, on Easy Street, on velvet, oofy, opulent, peaceful, plain, pleasant, pleased, pleased as Punch, pleased with, pleasing, prosperous, provided for, puff, quiet, reasonable, reconciled, relaxed, relaxing, reposeful, resigned, restful, rich, rich as Croesus, rolling in money, roomy, sabbatical, sans souci, satisfactory, satisfied, self-satisfied, serene, simple, smug, snug, soft, sold on, substantial, successful, sufficing, suitable, taken with, thrilled, tickled, tickled pink, tickled to death, tranquil, uncomplaining, undisturbed, unpretending, unrepining, untroubled, vacational, wallowing in wealth, warm, wealthy, welcome, well, well provided for, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do, without care

ROGET THESAURUS

comfortable

Wealth

N wealth, riches, fortune, handsome fortune, opulence, affluence, good circumstances, easy circumstances, independence, competence, solvency, provision, livelihood, maintenance, alimony, dowry, means, resources, substance, property, command of money, income, capital, money, round sum, mint of money, mine of wealth, El Dorado, bonanza, Pacatolus, Golconda, Potosi, long purse, full purse, well lined purse, heavy purse, deep pockets, purse of Fortunatus, embarras de richesses, pelf, Mammon, lucre, filthy lucre, loaves and fishes, rich man, moneyed man, warm man, man of substance, capitalist, millionaire, tippybob, Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens, Timocracy, Plutocracy, Danae, wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent, moneyed, monied, worth much, well to do, well off, warm, comfortable, well, well provided for, made of money, rich as Croesus, filthy rich, rich as a Jew, rolling in riches, rolling in wealth, flush, flush of cash, flush of money, flush of tin, in funds, in cash, in full feather, solvent, pecunious, out of debt, in the black, all straight, one's ship coming in, amour fait beaucoup mais argent fait tout, love does much but money does everything, aurea rumpunt tecta quietem, magna servitus ist magna fortuna, mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from Heaven, opum furiata cupido, vera prosperita e non aver necessita, wie gewonnen so zerronnen.

Pleasure

N pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition, oblectation, delectation, delection, relish, zest, gusto, satisfaction, complacency, well-being, good, snugness, comfort, ease, cushion, sans souci, without worry, mind at ease, joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine, cheerfulness, treat, refreshment, amusement, luxury, mens sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body, happiness, felicity, bliss, beatitude, beautification, enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy, summum bonum, paradise, elysium, third heaven, seventh heaven, cloud nine, unalloyed happiness, hedonics, hedonism, honeymoon, palmy days, halcyon days, golden age, golden time, Dixie, Dixie's land, Saturnia regna, Arcadia, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone, pleased, not sorry, glad, gladsome, pleased as Punch, happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus, enjoying, joyful, hedonic, in a blissful state, in paradise, in raptures, in ecstasies, in a transport of delight, comfortable, at ease, content, sans souci, overjoyed, entranced, enchanted, enraptures, enravished, transported, fascinated, captivated, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, pleasing, ecstatic, beatic, painless, unalloyed, without alloy, cloudless, happily, with pleasure, with glee, one's heart leaping with joy, a wilderness of sweets, I wish you all the joy that you can wish, jour de ma vie, joy ruled the day and love the night, joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt, oh happiness, our being's end and aim!, there is a pleasure that is born of pain, throned on highest bliss, vedi Napoli e poi muori, zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht weit, the bridge between joy and sorrow is not wide.

Pleasurableness

N pleasurableness, pleasantness, agreeableness, pleasure giving, jucundity, delectability, amusement, attraction, attractiveness, attractability, invitingness, harm, fascination, enchantment, witchery, seduction, winning ways, amenity, amiability, winsomeness, loveliness, sunny side, bright side, sweets, goodness, manna in the wilderness, land flowing with milk and honey, bittersweet, fair weather, treat, regale, dainty, titbit, tidbit, nuts, sauce piquante, causing pleasure, laetificant, pleasure-giving, pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable, agreeable, grateful, gratifying, leef, lief, acceptable, welcome, welcome as the roses in May, welcomed, favorite, to one's taste, to one's mind, to one's liking, satisfactory, refreshing, comfortable, cordial, genial, glad, gladsome, sweet, delectable, nice, dainty, delicate, delicious, dulcet, luscious, palatable, luxurious, voluptuous, sensual, attractive, inviting, prepossessing, engaging, winning, winsome, taking, fascinating, captivating, killing, seducing, seductive, heart-robbing, alluring, enticing, appetizing, cheering, bewitching, enchanting, entrancing, enravishing, charming, delightful, felicitous, exquisite, lovely, ravishing, rapturous, heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic, beatic, beatific, seraphic, empyrean, elysian, palmy, halcyon, Saturnian, decies repetita placebit, charms strike the sight but merit wins the soul, sweetness and light, beauty is only skin deep.

Content

N content, contentment, contentedness, complacency, satisfaction, entire satisfaction, ease, heart's ease, peace of mind, serenity, cheerfulness, ray of comfort, comfort reconciliation, resignation, waiter on Providence, content, contented, satisfied, at ease, at one's ease, at home, with the mind at ease, sans souci, sine cura, easygoing, not particular, conciliatory, unrepining, of good comfort, resigned, cheerful, unafflicted, unvexed, unmolested, unplagued, serene, at rest, snug, comfortable, in one's element, satisfactory, tolerable, good enough, OK, all right, acceptable, contently, contentedly, to one's heart's content, a la bonne heure, all for the best, Int, amen, very well, all the better, so much the better, well and good, it will do, that will do, it cannot be helped, nothing comes amiss, a heart with room for every joy, ich habe genossen das irdische Gluck ich habe gele, nor cast one longing lingering look behind, shut up in measureless content, sweet are the thoughts that savor of content, their wants but few their wishes all confined, might as well relax and enjoy it.

Physical Pleasure

N physical pleasure, pleasure, physical pleasure, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure, bodily enjoyment, animal gratification, hedonism, sensuality, luxuriousness, dissipation, round of pleasure, titillation, gusto, creature comforts, comfort, ease, pillow, luxury, lap of luxury, purple and fine linen, bed of downs, bed of roses, velvet, clover, cup of Circe, treat, refreshment, regale, feast, delice, dainty, bonne bouche, source of pleasure, happiness, enjoying, luxurious, voluptuous, sensual, comfortable, cosy, snug, in comfort, at ease, pleasant, agreeable, in comfort, on a bed of roses, at one's ease, ride si sapis, voluptales commendat rarior usus.