COMFORTABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comfortably mean? 

• COMFORTABLY (adverb)
  The adverb COMFORTABLY has 3 senses:

1. in mental comfort; without stress

2. in physical comfort

3. in financial comfort

  Familiarity information: COMFORTABLY used as an adverb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMFORTABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In mental comfort; without stress

Context example:

he works comfortably on three continents

Pertainym:

comfortable (free from stress or conducive to mental ease; having or affording peace of mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In physical comfort

Context example:

she could have been lying comfortably in bed getting the same relief

Antonym:

uncomfortably (in physical discomfort)

Pertainym:

comfortable (providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief ('comfy' is informal))

Sense 3

Meaning:

In financial comfort

Synonyms:

comfortably; well

Context example:

she has been able to live comfortably since her husband died

Pertainym:

comfortable (in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich)

 Context examples 

The necklace really looked very well; and Fanny left her room at last, comfortably satisfied with herself and all about her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I am a hop merchant myself, and as I have an income of seven or eight hundred, we found ourselves comfortably off, and took a nice eighty-pound-a-year villa at Norbury.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am very glad, indeed, my dear, to hear she is to be so comfortably settled.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Now, you must have some wine and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It would be so much nicer if he would be friendly with us and help us. We could all live comfortably aboard.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She took Mr. Peggotty's hat, and placed his seat for him, and spoke so comfortably and softly, that I hardly knew her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I like him, and we get on comfortably together.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If they marry, they will be sure of doing well, and if they do not, they may all live very comfortably together on the interest of ten thousand pounds.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

One evening, as they were thus sitting comfortably together, someone knocked at the door as if he wished to be let in.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

So he closed his eyes and slept normally and comfortably for eight uninterrupted hours.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)