Adjective: comf'table
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | comf'tabler |
| Superlative | comf'tablest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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And, first you know, queer shadows steal / From out the corners, so / Right where I hung my clothes I ’m sure / There ’s Something moves, and oh, / I feel a crawly, creepy chill / ’Way from my head to feet, / And little girls feel comf’tabler / To hid beneath the sheet! [1907, Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, page 544:]
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Here, come on inside here, where we can be comf’table. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 283:]
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Guaranteed to be the comf’tablest, most anitomical privy seat in Jefferson County! [1943, John Wallace, from conversations with Zackary Adams, Village Down East: Sketches of Village Life on the Northeast Coast of New England, Before “Gas-Buggies” Came, page 33:]
Adjectives inflected like comf'table
scarce,
smoove,
sombre,
wholsome,
sheene,
bolshie,
baroque,
concrete,
seveare,
comf'table,
shrewde,
'umble,
grislie,
unsubtle,
ungentle,
indiscrete,
couthie,
chavvie,
lissome,
cutesie, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology