(a.) Affording or imparting comfort or consolation; able to comfort; cheering; as, a comfortable hope.
(a.) In a condition of comfort; having comforts; not suffering or anxious; hence, contented; cheerful; as, to lead a comfortable life.
(a.) Free, or comparatively free, from pain or distress; -- used of a sick person.
(n.) A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter; a comfort.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) All the patients told about a comfortable feeling of warmth after each treatment lasting for one two days.
(3) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(4) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
(5) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(6) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
(7) "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," said Zuckerberg in 2010 during an intense few months as controversy raged over the complexity of Facebook's privacy settings.
(8) Consoles are even more widespread in Japan, of course, but for many, finding the time and space to play in comfort is tricky.
(9) Until the bell, 19-year-old Lizzie Armitstead figured strongly in a leading group of 12 that at one point enjoyed a two-minute lead, racing comfortably alongside the Olympic time-trial champion Kristin Armstrong.
(10) The team working together helps the patient receive maximum benefits from treatment and to live more comfortably with his disease.
(11) In a practical sense, it seems reasonable to establish the maxillomandibular relationship with the patient in a comfortable position.
(12) Atlético Madrid maintained their faint hopes of catching Barcelona by recording a fourth straight league win, comfortably beating Deportivo la Coruña 3-0 with goals by the midfielder Saúl Ñíguez, top scorer Antoine Griezmann and Argentinian forward Ángel Correa.
(13) Effectiveness of a relaxation technique to increase the comfort level of patients in their first postoperative attempt at getting out of bed was tested on 42 patients, aged 18 to 65, who were hospitalized for elective surgery.
(14) The comforts of home will determine Liverpool's fate in 2014, according to Brendan Rodgers, and they made a convincing start against Hull City.
(15) The country's priority now, he added, was to "comfort and care for people who have lived through a nightmare which very few of us can imagine".
(16) A backrest adds to the comfort and support of the subject performing resistive knee exercise and should be incorporated into the design of knee exercise units.
(17) The development of a shear transducer, small enough to be worn comfortably under a normal foot, is described, along with a microcomputer controlled data logger.
(18) I still feel that I am standing behind the chair and it is someone else sat there, and I’m just reading over their shoulder.” He hopes life becomes a little more comfortable.
(19) He casts his history of bipartisan negotiation as a form of steamrolling practicality, and many of his actual policies, save regarding gun control, fit comfortably within the far right framework.
(20) It was concluded that preparation to lie down, lying-down movements and comfort behaviour are suitable for the study of relationships between the use of electric cow-trainers and impaired health in cows.
Consolatory
Definition:
(a.) Of a consoling or comforting nature.
(n.) That which consoles; a speech or writing intended for consolation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Bas-Lag books put Miéville at the forefront of a group of writers who blended science fiction and fantasy elements with horror and pulp into what was enthusiastically labelled the New Weird: dark, politically aware urban visions that explicitly rejected the consolatory, escapist strain established by Tolkien.
(2) Instantly the centre half was engulfed by team-mates desperate to offer her a consolatory hug.
(3) As a consolatory gesture, the research ship’s remotely operated undersea vehicle, designed to collect samples from the deep waters of the Arctic and Antarctic, will be named Boaty McBoatface, the government said.
(4) The excuses have been accompanied by the usual consolatory cry of pro-Europeans that the fundamental common sense of the British public will kick in and they will grasp that it is in their self-interest to remain in the world's largest free trade area when debate is properly joined.
(5) It cannot surely be long before Angela Merkel is pictured placing a consolatory arm around David Cameron, after being overheard lecturing Vladimir Putin on the trouble with 4-4-2, and brochures extolling Germany will become popular in high-street travel agencies as the world wakes up to a much-underrated destination.
(6) No matter; his team-mates did enough to ensure Pardew was in a position to offer Hughton a consolatory handshake at the final whistle.
(7) His fans won't know whether to don their celebratory black T-shirts or weep into their consolatory black bedspreads.
(8) Plus at the last, a final rendition of La Marseillaise, a fitting full stop on evening of restrained, consolatory communion.
(9) Fothergill said he eventually received backdated payments plus a consolatory payment of £50 but remains "very angry".
(10) Despite Noel's drop – he was two or three picks away from getting consolatory phone calls from Aaron Rodgers – he was still picked up one spot earlier than Kansas's Ben McLemore, maybe the most talented player in the draft, who was taken seventh by the Sacramento Kings.