comfy
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- comfily adverb
- comfiness noun
Etymology
Origin of comfy
1820–30; comf(ortable) + -y 2, anomalously forming an adj.
Example Sentences
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She was curled up in a comfy chair, reading a book on sea turtles.
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He worked all morning, and at eleven thirty he took his lunch out of his backpack and went to sit in one of the comfy chairs outside the dining room.
From Literature
The comfy scent of evening chimney fires mingles with the autumn air as we walk back to the Mutton.
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“If the toilet is in the middle of the room, I don’t really care, so long as I’ve got a comfy bed to sleep in,” he said.
Hotel rooms with shoppable decor have made buying that lamp or comfy sofa as easy as one scan of a QR code.
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