comfortable

comfortable
adj.
1 allowing you to feel relaxed
VERBS
▪ be, feel, look
▪

The bed felt comfortable.

▪ make sth
▪

We must think how we can make the room more comfortable for you.

ADVERB
▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.
▪ incredibly, wonderfully
▪

an incredibly comfortable chair

▪ perfectly
▪ enough, moderately, reasonably
▪

The hotel was comfortable enough.

▪ surprisingly
PHRASES
▪ change into something more comfortable, slip into something more comfortable
▪

I'll change into something more comfortable when I get home.

2 not having any pain/worry
VERBS
▪ be, feel, look
▪

Did you feel comfortable and relaxed at the party?

▪ become, get
▪

This bed is lumpy—I just can't seem to get comfortable.

▪ make sb/yourself
▪

Make yourself comfortable!

▪ keep sb
ADVERB
▪ very
▪ completely, entirely, fully, perfectly, quite, totally
▪

I was not entirely comfortable about the plans they had made.

▪ increasingly
PREPOSITION
▪ about
▪

She didn't feel comfortable about going out alone.

▪ with
▪

I don't feel comfortable with him.

PHRASES
▪ comfortable in your (own) skin
3 having/providing enough money for all your needs
VERBS
▪ be
ADVERB
▪ very
▪ quite, relatively
▪

I had a relatively comfortable life in Brazil.

Comfortable is used with these nouns: ↑accommodation, ↑apartment, ↑armchair, ↑atmosphere, ↑balance, ↑bed, ↑bedroom, ↑chair, ↑circumstance, ↑clothes, ↑clothing, ↑confines, ↑couch, ↑distance, ↑environment, ↑existence, ↑familiarity, ↑fit, ↑flat, ↑grip, ↑home, ↑hotel, ↑house, ↑journey, ↑lead, ↑lifestyle, ↑living, ↑lounge, ↑majority, ↑margin, ↑mattress, ↑niche, ↑position, ↑quarter, ↑retirement, ↑ride, ↑room, ↑seat, ↑seating, ↑settee, ↑shoe, ↑slipper, ↑sofa, ↑stay, ↑suburb, ↑surroundings, ↑victory, ↑warmth, ↑win, ↑winner

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