What does "comfortable" mean?
Comfortable: Serviceable; helpful. [Obs.] Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her. Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.Affording or imparting comfort or consolation; able to comfort; cheering; as, a comfortable hope. "Kind words and comfortable." Cowper. A comfortable provision made for their subsistence. Dryden.
- 3.In a condition of comfort; having comforts; not suffering or anxious; hence, contented; cheerful; as, to lead a comfortable life. My lord leans wondrously to discontent; His comfortable temper has forsook him: He is much out of health. Shak.
- 4.Free, or comparatively free, from pain or distress; -- used of a sick person. [U. S.]
- 5.A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter; a comfort. [U. S.]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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