comfortably

English

Etymology

From comfortable +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌmftɚbli/, /ˈkʌmfɚtəbli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌmf(ə)təbli/

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• Hyphenation: com‧fort‧ably

Adverb

comfortably (comparative more comfortably, superlative most comfortably)

1. In a comfortable manner.

   I snuggled comfortably into the blankets.

2. Easily; without effort or difficulty.
   • 2012 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Messi was the next to test Cech with a header from Sanchez's cross, the Chelsea keeper gathering the effort comfortably as Barcelona once more failed to produce the final touch to accompany their artistic approach work.

Antonyms

• uncomfortably

Derived terms

• comfortably off

Translations

in a comfortable manner

• Catalan: còmodament (ca)
• French: confortablement (fr)
• Galician: comodamente
• Italian: comodamente (it)
• Middle English: esiliche
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: komfortabelt

• Portuguese: comodamente
• Spanish: cómodamente (es)
• Telugu: సౌకర్యముగా (saukaryamugā)
• Ukrainian: зручно (zručno)