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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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douth
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: douth, IPA(key): /da??/
- Rhymes: -a??
Etymology 1
From Middle English douth, douthe, duweðe (“body of retainers, people, might, dignity, worth”), from Old English duguþ (“manhood, host, multitude, troops”), from Proto-Germanic *dugunþ? (“power, competency, notefulness, virtue”), from *dugan? (“to be useful”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewg?- (“to be ready, be sufficient”). Cognate with North Frisian døgd, døged (“ability, good deed”), Dutch deugd (“virtue”), German Tugend (“virtue”), Swedish dygd (“virtue”), Icelandic dygð, dyggð (“virtue”). Related to dow, doughty.
Noun
douth (usually uncountable, plural douths)
- (obsolete) Virtue; excellence; atheldom; nobility; power; riches.
- (obsolete) A group of people, especially an army or retinue.
- (dialectal) Reliability; ease; security; shelter.
- There's no[sic] much douth in a wire fence.
Adjective
douth (comparative more douth, superlative most douth)
- (dialectal) Snug; comfortable; in easy circumstances.
Etymology 2
Noun
douth (plural douths)
- Alternative form of dought
Middle English
Alternative forms
- douthe, duthe, douþe
- (Early ME) dugeð, duweðe, du?eðe, do?eðe, du?eþe, duheðe, duhþe, du?d
Etymology
From Old English duguþ, from Proto-Germanic *dugunþ?.
Pronunciation
- (Early ME) IPA(key): /?du???/
- IPA(key): /du??/
Noun
douth (uncountable)
- A group, band, or company of people:
- The personal military force of a ruler or potentate.
- Any group of armed people; an army or troop.
- (rare) Potency, might, worth.
- (rare) An individual person.
- (rare) Something beneficial; a boon.
- (rare) The state of being mature.
Related terms
- doughty
Descendants
- English: douth
- Scots: duthe, douth
References
- “douth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-05.
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