comfortable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal)

   comfortable clothes

2. 2
   adj

   sufficient to provide comfort

   a comfortable salary

3. 3
   adj

   more than adequate

   the home team had a comfortable lead

4. 4
   adj

   Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable.

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

5. 5
   adj

   In a state of comfort and content.

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

6. 6
   adj

   Amply sufficient, satisfactory.

   A comfortable income should suffice to consider oneself rich.

7. 7
   adj

   Comforting, 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[…].

8. 8
   adj

   Strong; vigorous; valiant.

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

Etymology

From Middle English comfortable, from Old French confortable, from conforter. By surface analysis, comfort + -able.