comfortsome
English
Etymology
From comfort + -some.
Adjective
comfortsome (comparative more comfortsome, superlative most comfortsome)
- Characterised or marked by comfort
- 1984, Paul Oliver, Songsters and Saints:
- And hunt for comfortsome creatures / And find none but sharp barbs and [get entangled] - [...]
- 2004, Jonathan Rich, Push Guide to Which University:
- All 1st years who want to can live in a variety of highly comfortsome halls.
- 2015, Sara Taylor, The Shore:
- It was the longest 'n' the sweetest 'n' the most comfortsome kiss I ever had, being the first one I'd ever tasted, and after that I shut my crying up tight.
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Adverb
comfortsome (comparative more comfortsome, superlative most comfortsome)
- (regional, nonstandard) In a comfortsome or comforting manner; comfortably
- 2012, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Deadly Flood:
- "[...] Dragoon her a tent and as many peones as it takes to set her up comfortsome.”
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