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advantageous
English
Etymology
advantage +? -ous or from Middle French avantageus (French avantageux). See advantage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ædv?n?te?d???s/
- Rhymes: -e?d??s
- Hyphenation: ad?van?ta?geous
Adjective
advantageous (comparative more advantageous, superlative most advantageous)
- Being of advantage, beneficial.
- Synonyms: behooveful, furthersome, gainful, profitable, useful
Derived terms
- advantageously
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comfortable
English
Alternative forms
- comfterble / comftorble (eye dialect)
Etymology
From Middle English comfortable, from Old French confortable, from conforter. See also comfort.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Canada)
- enPR: k?mf't?bl, k?mf't?rbl, k?m'f?rt?bl, k?m'f?t?bl
- IPA(key): /?k?mf.t?.b?l/, /?k?mf.t??.b?l/, /?k?m.f??.t?.b?l/, /?k?m.f?.t?.b?l/
- (Received Pronunciation)
- enPR: k?mf't?bl IPA(key): /?k?mf.t?.b?l/, [?k???f.t???.b??]
- enPR: k?m'f?t?bl IPA(key): /?k?m.f?.t?.b?l/
- (General New Zealand)
- enPR: k?mf't?bl
- IPA(key): /?k?mf.t?.b?l/, [?k???f.t?.bl?], [?k???.f??.b?]
Adjective
comfortable (comparative comfortabler or more comfortable, superlative comfortablest or most comfortable)
- Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable. [from 18thc.]
- In a state of comfort and content. [from 18thc.]
- A great bargain also had been […] the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
- (obsolete) Comforting, providing comfort; consolatory. [14th-19thc.]
- 1699, John Dryden, Tales from Chaucer
- a comfortable provision made for their subsistence
- 1699, John Dryden, Tales from Chaucer
- Amply sufficient, satisfactory. [from 17thc.]
- (obsolete) Strong; vigorous; valiant.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Serviceable; helpful.
Usage notes
Although the word comfortable looks (etymonically) like one of its senses could be synonymous with consolable, it does not have that sense; the absence of that sense is simply a lexical gap. In parallel, the same is true of comfortability and consolability, as well as uncomfortable and inconsolable.
Synonyms
- (providing/enjoying comfort): comforting, comfy, cozy, eathful, restful, snug, cushy
- (safely reliable): safe
Antonyms
- comfortless, uncomfortable
Derived terms
Related terms
- comforter
- discomfort
Translations
Noun
comfortable (plural comfortables)
- (US) A stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter.
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French confortable, from conforter.
Adjective
comfortable
- comfortable
Descendants
- English: comfortable
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