com·fort·a·ble

(kŭm′fər-tə-bəl, kŭmf′tə-bəl, kŭmf′tər-)

adj.

1. Providing physical comfort: a comfortable chair.

2. Free from stress or anxiety; at ease: not comfortable about the interview.

3. Producing feelings of ease or security: a comfortable person; a comfortable evening at home.

4. Sufficient to provide financial security: comfortable earnings.

com′fort·a·ble·ness n.

com′fort·a·bly adv.

Synonyms: comfortable, easy, cozy, snug¹
These adjectives mean affording ease of mind or body. Comfortable implies the absence of sources of pain or distress: wears comfortable clothes.
The word may also suggest peace of mind: felt comfortable with the decision.
Easy denotes freedom from worry or stress: an easy life with plenty of time for leisure activities.
Cozy suggests homey and reassuring comforts: sat in a cozy nook near the fire.
Snug brings to mind the image of a warm, secure, compact shelter: children snug in their beds.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	comfortableness - a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain; "he is a man who enjoys his comfort"; "she longed for the comfortableness of her armchair" comfort condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" relief, ease - the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress); "he enjoyed his relief from responsibility"; "getting it off his conscience gave him some ease" solacement, solace - comfort in disappointment or misery cosiness, coziness, snugness - a state of warm snug comfort convenience - the state of being suitable or opportune; "chairs arranged for his own convenience"
	2.	comfortableness - a feeling of being at ease in a relationship belonging - happiness felt in a secure relationship; "with his classmates he felt a sense of belonging"

Translations

Behaglichkeit

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References in classic literature

I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend.

View in context

Surpass, ye higher men, the petty virtues, the petty policy, the sand-grain considerateness, the ant-hill trumpery, the pitiable comfortableness, the "happiness of the greatest number"--!

View in context

In this latter context, paper stands for tradition, comfortableness, warmth, undemanding, simple contexts and realities, and relaxation.

THE HERMENEUTICS OF THE "EMMA!..." OR "PAPER HAS A GREAT FUTURE" ADVERTISEMENT

Clergy was seen as eliciting significantly less comfortableness compared to psychologists (Murstein & Fontaine, 1993).

The Influence of Hmong Americans' Acculturation and Cultural Identity on Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Mental Health Care and Services in Comparison to Traditional Health Beliefs and Practices

Over several months, both clients came to define themselves in their Africanity and achieved a comfortableness about it.

Research

In terms of the shopping mall market, shopping mall operators, with their deep understanding of the essence of experiential consumption, created new commercial models and enhanced customers' shopping experience while carrying out the deep integration of online and offline businesses with the use of the Internet and big data technologies, thereby comprehensively improving the efficiency, convenience and comfortableness of new retail.

Joy City Property Announced 2018 Interim Results

Table 1 shows the results of a chi-square analysis examining the relationship between type of mentoring used and the degree mentoring helped in transitioning to practice, managing stress, and professional development, comfortableness in the role of staff nurse, and turnover intentions.

New Nurse Graduate Residency Mentoring: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Research Study Nurse residency programs

Due to a decreased use of awake intubation, this approach might at least be very valuable for the management of potential difficult airways while balances patients' comfortableness and anesthesiologists' efficiency.

Tracheal Intubation Awake or Under Anesthesia for Potential Difficult Airway: Look Before You Leap

When a heavy vehicle running over the bridge whose smoothness is general or poor, the velocity should be better controlled at 15m/s, and once the speed reaches 10m/s or 25m/s, the impact effect caused by vehicle vibration would significantly influence the driving comfortableness and service life of deck pavement.

A Study on Dynamic Amplification Factor and Structure Parameter of Bridge Deck Pavement Based on Bridge Deck Pavement Roughness

Suxia, "Vibration analysis and comfortableness evaluation of a human-vehicle-bridge coupled system," Mechanical Science and Technology, vol.

Study on Vibration Characteristics and Human Riding Comfort of a Special Equipment Cab

Raising awareness with users on how best to use VRS/VRI 67.9% Better audio/video quality 57.1% Training of VRS/VRI interpreters 39.3% Better network reliability 39.3% Training of customer service skills 28.6% More contextual information 21.4% Better self-evaluation features at the end of a call for the Interpreter 17.9% More comfortableness ergonomics 14.3% Easier usage 3.6% Service evaluation after calls 3.6% More reliable technology 3.6% Use experienced interpreters 3.6% Note: Table made from bar graph.

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