comfortable
/ˈkʌm(p)f.tə.bəl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.66 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
In a state of comfort and content.
adj
Confident; relaxed; not worried about someone or something.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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"
- "A comfortable income should suffice to consider oneself rich."
Etymology
From Middle English comfortable, from Old French confortable, from conforter. By surface analysis, comfort + -able.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: comfortable, confortable
Usage
Inflected Forms
comfortabler (comparative)
more comfortable (comparative)
comfortablest (superlative)
most comfortable (superlative)
comftabul (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
comfterble (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
comftorble (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
comfortables (plural)