adv
Meaning 1
In a comfortable manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- I snuggled comfortably into the blankets.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
comfortably
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈkʌmftɚbli/
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General-American: /ˈkʌmfɚtəbli/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkʌmf(ə)təbli/
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CMU ARPABET: K AH1 M F ER0 T AH0 B L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
Easily; without effort or difficulty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
in financial comfort
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- They live well
- she has been able to live comfortably since her husband died
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: well
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 4
in mental comfort; without stress
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he works comfortably on three continents
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 5
in physical comfort
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she could have been lying comfortably in bed getting the same relief
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: uncomfortably
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English comfortable Middle English -ly English -ly English comfortably From comfortable + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: còmodament — in a comfortable manner
- Czech: pohodlně — in a comfortable manner
- French: confortablement — in a comfortable manner
- Galician: comodamente — in a comfortable manner
- Greek: άνετα (áneta) — in a comfortable manner
- Greek: βολικά (voliká) — in a comfortable manner
- Hungarian: kényelmesen — in a comfortable manner
- Italian: comodamente — in a comfortable manner
- Middle English: esiliche — in a comfortable manner
- Norwegian Bokmål: komfortabelt — in a comfortable manner
- Polish: wygodnie — in a comfortable manner
- Portuguese: comodamente — in a comfortable manner
- Portuguese: confortavelmente — in a comfortable manner
- Spanish: cómodamente — in a comfortable manner
- Telugu: సౌకర్యముగా (saukaryamugā) — in a comfortable manner
- Ukrainian: зручно (zručno) — in a comfortable manner
Real reading context