Adjacent Words

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adv
1: in mental comfort; without stress; "he works comfortably on three continents"
2: in physical comfort; "she could have been lying comfortably in bed getting the same relief" [ant: uncomfortably]
3: in financial comfort; "They live well"; "she has been able to live comfortably since her husband died" [syn: well, comfortably]

Merriam Webster's

adverb see comfortable

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Comfortably Com"fort*a*bly, adv. In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. --Is. xl. 2.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you do something comfortably, you do it easily. Only take upon yourself those things that you know you can manage comfortably... Three of the six have comfortably exceeded their normal life expectancy. ADV: ADV with v see also comfortable

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kum'-fer-ta-bli (`al lebh, "to the heart"): "To speak to the heart," i.e. to speak kindly, to console, to comfort, is the ordinary Hebrew expression for wooing: e.g. Boaz spake "to the heart" of Ru (Ru 2:13 margin; the King James Version "friendly," the Revised Version (British and American) "kindly"). The beauty of the Hebrew term is illustrated in Ge 50:21 where Joseph "spake kindly" unto his brethren, winning them from fear to confidence. Rendered "comfortably" in five passages: thrice of human speaking, and twice of the tenderness of God's address to His people. David was urged to win back the hearts of the people by kind words: "speak comfortably" (2Sa 19:7). Hezekiah in like manner comforted the Levites (2Ch 30:22) and encouraged his captains (2Ch 32:6). The term has exceptional wealth of meaning in connection with God's message of grace and forgiveness to His redeemed people. The compassionate love that has atoned for their sins speaks to the heart ("comfortably") of Jerusalem, saying "that her iniquity is pardoned" (Isa 40:2). The same promise of forgiveness is given to the penitent nation by the prophet Hosea (Ho 2:14); "comfortable words" (Zec 1:13), i.e. words affording comfort.

Dwight M. Pratt