comfortableadj/ˈkʌm(p)f.tə.bəl/

• 1

  Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable.

  • This is the most comfortable bed I’ve ever slept in.
  • 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.
• 2

  In a state of comfort and content.

  • What a great guestroom! I'll be quite comfortable here.
  • 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.
• 3

  Confident; relaxed; not worried about someone or something.

  • 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
• 4

  Amply sufficient, satisfactory.

  • A comfortable income should suffice to consider oneself rich.
  • The home team is ahead by a comfortable margin.
• 5

  obsoleteComforting, providing comfort; consolatory.

  • 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[…].
  • a comfortable provision made for their subsistence
• 6

  obsoleteStrong; vigorous; valiant.

  • Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death a while at the arm's end.
• 7

  obsoleteServiceable; helpful.

  • Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.

comfortablenoun/ˈkʌm(p)f.tə.bəl/

• 1

  A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter.