[
US
/ˈkəmfɝtəbɫi/
]
[ UK /kˈʌmftəbli/ ]
[ UK /kˈʌmftəbli/ ]
ADVERB
-
in mental comfort; without stress
he works comfortably on three continents -
in financial comfort
They live well
she has been able to live comfortably since her husband died -
in physical comfort
she could have been lying comfortably in bed getting the same relief
How To Use comfortably In A Sentence
- This is a movie with a distinct and startling cinematic language, but with uncomfortably coercive mannerisms.
- They spent their honeymoon adventurously cruising on a motorcycle, Nona riding comfortably in the side-car. Archive 2009-01-01
- My nose is uncomfortably stuffed up.
- The second half of the match comfortably surpassed the first in entertainment value.
- On Sunday evening, after the dishes had been washed and Jared was in bed, Charisse and Stefàn were lounging comfortably on the plush leather cuddler sofa in their den and listening to a classic Grover Washington, Jr. CD. Who Said It Would Be Easy
- Despite advances in headphone design, the fact is you are still listening to glorified stereo, where the sounds appear to thump uncomfortably inside your head.
- Claire looked at her feet, shuffling uncomfortably in place.
- It was a noble situation — noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably house-like was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two hundred dollars a front foot to a bungalow equally dignified, noble, and costly. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
- And the deadline for submitting the illustrations was getting uncomfortably close.
- While Mona stares uncomfortably into the horse's eye, Tamsin regards her with poised bemusement.
