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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishcomfortable, fromOld Frenchconfortable, fromconforter. Bysurface analysis,comfort +‎-able.

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Adjective

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comfortable (comparativecomfortablerormorecomfortable,superlativecomfortablestormostcomfortable)

  1. Providing physical comfort andease;agreeable.[from 18th c.]
    This is the mostcomfortable bed I’ve ever slept in.
  2. In a state of comfort andcontent.[from 18th c.]
    What a great guestroom! I'll be quitecomfortable here.
    • 1913,Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, inThe Lodger, London:Methuen,→OCLC; republished inNovels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.:Longmans, Green and Co., […],[1933],→OCLC,page0016:
      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 becomfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
  3. Confident;relaxed; notworried about someone or something.
  4. Amplysufficient, satisfactory.[from 17th c.]
    Acomfortable income should suffice to consider oneself rich.
    The home team is ahead by acomfortable margin.
    • 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, inBBC Sport:
      When Hape sauntered over for a try after only three minutes it looked as if England were destined for acomfortable victory, but Georgia are made of sterner stuff, as they showed when running Scotland close in Invercargill last week.
  5. (obsolete)Comforting, providing comfort;consolatory.[14th–19th c.]
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym;Robert Burton],The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps,→OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection ii:
      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 suchcomfortable speeches, that he redeemed hime faucibus Erebi […].
    • 1699,John Dryden,Tales from Chaucer:
      acomfortable provision made for their subsistence
    • 1791, Ann Radcliffe,The Romance of the Forest:
      The commanding officer readily granted a reprieve, and Louis, who, on the arrival of this letter, had forborne to communicate its contents to Theodore, left it should torture him with false hope, now hastened to him with thiscomfortable news.
  6. (obsolete) Strong; vigorous; valiant.
  7. (obsolete) Serviceable; helpful.

Usage notes

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Although the wordcomfortable looks (etymonically) like one of its senses could be synonymous withconsolable, it does not have that sense; the absence of that sense is simply alexical gap. In parallel, the same is true ofcomfortability andconsolability, as well asuncomfortable andinconsolable.

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Translations

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providing physical comfort and ease
in a state of comfort
amply sufficient
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Noun

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comfortable (pluralcomfortables)

  1. (US) A stuffed or quiltedcoverlet for abed; acomforter.

Middle English

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchconfortable, fromconforter; equivalent tocomfort +‎-able.

Adjective

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comfortable

  1. comfortable
    • 1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e.,Thomas Malory], “[Launcelot andGuinevere]”, inLe Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678), [England:s.n.],folio 449, recto:
      IN Maẏ whan eúý harte floryſhyth́ ⁊ burgruyth́ for as the ſeaſon ys luſty to be holde andcomfortable ſo man and woman reioyſyth and gladith of ſom[er] cõmynge wt his freyſhe floures
      IN May, when every heart flourisheth and burgeneth; for as the season is lusty to behold, andcomfortable, so man and woman rejoice and be glad of summer coming with his fresh flowers.
  2. strong;vigorous
    (Can wefind and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

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