comfortable

  • (a) providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief ("comfy" is informal)
    • comfortable clothes
    • comfortable suburban houses
    • made himself comfortable in an armchair
    • the antihistamine made her feel more comfortable
    • are you comfortable?
    • feeling comfy now?
    comfy,
  • (a) free from stress or conducive to mental ease; having or affording peace of mind
    • was settled in a comfortable job, one for which he was well prepared
    • the comfortable thought that nothing could go wrong
    • was comfortable in his religious beliefs
    • she's a comfortable person to be with
    • she felt comfortable with her fiance's parents
  • (s) more than adequate
    • the home team had a comfortable lead
  • (s) sufficient to provide comfort
    • a comfortable salary
  • (s) in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich
    • they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards
    • easy living
    • a prosperous family
    • his family is well-situated financially
    • well-to-do members of the community
    prosperous, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do, easy,

Synonyms

comfy prosperous well-fixed well-heeled well-off well-situated well-to-do easy

Antonyms

uncomfortable

See also

easy

Words of close approximity

comfortably
comfortably
comfortableness