Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a comfortable manner.
- With cheerfulness.
- In a manner to give comfort or consolation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a comfortable or comforting manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
comfortable manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in mental comfort; without stress
- adverb in financial comfort
- adverb in physical comfort
Etymologies
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Examples
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Father only left Paris after he had seen us what he calls comfortably settled here, and had informed Madame de Maisonrouge (the mistress of the establishment -- the head of the "family") that he wished my French pronunciation especially attended to.
A Bundle of Letters Henry James 1879
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McCain comfortably sitting in the peanut gallery with no real responsibility. nice job if you can get it.
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Donnelly was expected to win comfortably, but ended up eking out a victory by less than 4,000 votes out of 190,000 cast.
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But now heading into one state that we all knew she'd win comfortably, the media says "a big win will re-energise her campaign".
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Dollar Bill Jefferson will win comfortably tonight, and luckily this embarrassment will presumably be overshadowed by an Obama win.
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Kurtis wheeled to the figure seated behind him, speaking comfortably from the black high back mesh chair behind the metal and glass that was the desktop now between them.
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They will seat 5, comfortably is in the eye of the beholder.
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Yet flying comfortably is so much more important on long hauls.
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Anthropometry studies fixed and dynamic human body dimensions - how easily can you reach the pedals on your car, can you adjust the radio comfortably, is your chair comfortable, etc, etc?
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Dollar Bill Jefferson will win comfortably tonight, and luckily this embarrassment will presumably be overshadowed by an Obama win.
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