Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal Comfortable.
Wiktionary
- adj. informal Comfortable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. [informal]. comfortable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal)
Examples
“They can therefore say they have reduced the amount of paperwork for officers (e-mail forms), but latent neanderthal officers still insist on filling out numerous unecessary forms (created and required by them but beside the point), thus hiding in comfy warm offices rather being out dealing with the general public. on March 23, 2010 at 12: 14 pm VanDee”
Unnecessary Police Bureaucracy – Part 1. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
“In this video, the problem is sitting across from Colbert, Rodriguez and Moreschi, in comfy leather chairs behind elevated wooden barricades in large temperature controlled rooms, wearing tailored suits and expensive jewelry and working smart phones with uncalloused hands while deliberating endlessly over the fate of people who are just trying to feed and clothe their families and give their children a little better life than the one they're having.”
The Huffington Post: Mike Bonifer: Who's That Guy Behind Colbert?
“(Stine writes most of the novels in comfy first person to provide a subconscious reassurance that the narrator will live.)”
“I love my work -- I sit at home in comfy clothes and talk about games all day -- so as it turns out, my "gaming skillset" can get tired.”
“They only focus on the sex, and they still own their big-screen televisions and big cars and sleep in comfy beds and eat to excess.”
“Researchers have recently shown that people in comfy clothing move more and thus burn more calories than people in traditional business attire.”
“The riders will now travel from stage to stage in comfy captain's chairs, with showers and refreshments close at hand.”
“Her lightly tanned skin was set off beautifully by the deep green tunic she wore over what she always referred to as her comfy black pants.”
“Sadly, bookstores may now be abandoning the idea of comfy seating.”
“Deeply bucketed rear seats helped, but under no circumstances could it be described as comfy back there.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘comfy’.
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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words I don't like very much
many frequently used by moms; words that sound dirtier than they are
crisp, grunge, cuddle, puke, smear, voucher, manipulate, fodder, coddle, fecund, chunk, hunk and 71 more...
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cashmere, cascade, cedar, coral, cherry blossom, candlelight, cream, cloak, casanova, cinnamon, cherub, corset and 39 more...
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waltzingmatilda's Words
enhance, entropy, lethalize, splinter, glee, glimpse, acid, mellow, mushy, cozy, cuddle, comfy and 9 more...
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gayle's favourites list
Words I love the sound, meaning and/or impact of. Words I use often.
gorgeous, bastard, fuck, lovely, perfect, imagine, jest, bile, elegant, decayed, spunk, shiney and 9 more...
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Qualities and feelings
simple, joy, bright, delight, clean, green, wholesome, early, clear, quiet, still, silence and 34 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for comfy.
yarb '...we are most of us perfectly capable
of falling in love (to a fairly profound
degree) with any or all of a larger
cross-section of the opposite sex
than normal social and matrimonial
codes make it comfy to realise...'
- Peter Reading, The John o' Groat's Theory, from Nothing for Anyone, 1977 Jun 26, 2008
oroboros "Anything but the comfy chair!!!..."
"ANYTHING????"
"Okay, okay, the comfy chair, the comfy chair!!" Aug 11, 2007
sonofgroucho As in "Not the comfy chair!" Jun 27, 2007