(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.
Prosperous
Definition:
(a.) Tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful.
(a.) Being prospered; advancing in the pursuit of anything desirable; making gain, or increase; thriving; successful; as, a prosperous voyage; a prosperous undertaking; a prosperous man or nation.
Example Sentences:
(1) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(2) The referendum shows that democracy really sucks – that democracy does not deliver stability, prosperity [or] responsible government,” Tsang said.
(3) There is a mutual interest in keeping prosperity that exists and has built over the years.” But Pisani-Ferry said Macron would certainly not seek to punish Britain.
(4) Kirkby is not a particularly prosperous town,” says Matt Donnelly, 27.
(5) Today we vote for reforms that will allow us to build a stronger Fifa so football can prosper in the long run and so the events of the last months will never happen again,” he added.
(6) "King Hamad understands that Bahrain cannot prosper if he rules by repression," the US ambassador reported in December 2009 .
(7) If Davos is a closed shop for the wealthy and powerful elites who caused today’s global inequality, it won’t come up with the answers needed for a more fair and prosperous future for all the world’s workers and their families.
(8) I want to spread prosperity to every corner of our country.
(9) Today, we have come to a broader and more nuanced understanding of this age-old imperative: how to better balance the development needs of a growing world population – so all may enjoy the fruits of prosperity and robust economic growth – with the necessity of conserving our planet's most precious resources: land, air and water.
(10) The Conservative peer and chancellor of the University of Oxford took the view – rightly – two decades ago that Hong Kong’s prosperity was underpinned by a free and plural society.
(11) "I look forward to working together for the future prosperity of my country," she was quoted as saying.
(12) These projects served the broader purpose of European integration, but they overlooked critical flaws in the architecture of monetary union that need to be decisively addressed so that the euro fulfils its promise of economic prosperity and prevents Europe from slipping even more into division and discontent.
(13) In his time away, Alwash had married an American, and prospered as a partner in a engineering company.
(14) I would say we need to make some difficult decisions and therefore austerity now and prosperity later."
(15) She added: This is about the European Union, in our neighbourhood actually working with the people and politicians in Ukraine to try and ensure a stable and prosperous future for all of them.
(16) I think that’s why 70% of the public now supports public ownership … the passengers pay a premium for privatisation.” For Cash, the short changing of passengers to benefit a few shareholders is symptomatic of the current regime – austerity for the many and prosperity for the few.
(17) Local unemployment is around 3.7% and Chorley, with its 300 farms and old families, is quietly prosperous.
(18) For those who believed that overthrowing communism would bring immediate prosperity and right the wrongs of the past, the fact that they were still poor while communist officials profited from the transition made it seem like the old order had not really been overthrown.
(19) The old divisions between rich and poor countries, the climate polluters of the past and the rising economies now spewing out carbon in their rush to prosperity, were wearing away, they said.
(20) We're all human beings, we all wish for prosperity, we all wish for better health for our children, better education for our children; for better standards of living and quality of life regardless of where we live, and that is really what unites us.