(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.
Homelike
Definition:
(a.) Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.
Example Sentences:
(1) AFC residents and their families were more likely to value privacy and homelike settings when choosing a care setting, whereas nursing home residents were more likely to value rehabilitation and organized activity programs.
(2) However, data from an ongoing study comparing two cohorts of young first admission schizophrenics--one receiving neuroleptic-oriented treatment on the wards of a community mental health center (CMHC), the other an intensive interpersonal approach in a small homelike facility in the community (Soteria House)--raise questions about the routine use of neuroleptics with this population.
(3) The results indicated that there are aspects of a homelike environment, emotional support from staff, and skill-development activities within the home.
(4) Providing residents with a homelike, pleasant dining atmosphere should promote socialization, enhance awareness, and increase appetites, thereby improving the residents' quality of life.
(5) Alternative birth centers (ABCs) have sprung up throughout the country and are providing one-room, homelike environments for labor, delivery and recovery; Leboyer atmosphere; natural childbirth techniques; rooming in; and early discharge.
(6) While it is a truism that nursing homes should reflect a homelike setting, relatively few nursing homes have been successful in avoiding a hospital-like image.
(7) This result suggested that active and mentally strong elderly coped better with the "homelike" therapeutic community method executed between 1983-87, which focused only on a pleasant atmosphere in which the old people could live together.
(8) The home's purpose is to allow these otherwise healthy children to leave the hospital and live in a homelike environment while awaiting placement with their parents or foster parents.
(9) The research confirms that it is desirable to finish development of the system of care of old people in untraditional ways which would make possible keeping the old people in homelike conditions as long as possible.
(10) A consultation-liaison psychiatry program in a teaching nursing home helped implement six guiding principles including: make the patient human to the staff; assume no behavior is random; look for depression of psychosis as a source of problems; reduce medications and medication doses; create a more homelike environment; and use conditions in which learning still occurs in dementia.
(11) The services provide acute treatment in supportive, homelike settings, usually either private homes or small group facilities, and intensive discharge planning to link clients with community sources of long-term care.
(12) Our results suggest that early transfer from an acute hospital to a more homelike residential facility with a team approach, hastens rehabilitation both physically and emotionally.
(13) The most important mitigating factors were: the informal support that staff provided for each other in this small cohesive working unit, the homelike atmosphere of the hospice, and the diversity of professional and personal skills among the staff group.
(14) Gehring Hall provides accepted residents a stable, homelike living situation, comprehensive medical care, job opportunities, and counseling.
(15) The basic educational program, i.e., practical advice in SMBG, diet, and exercise under homelike conditions, was identical in both groups.