comfortably

adv
/ˈkʌmftɚbli/US/ˈkʌmf(ə)təbli/UK

Etymology

From comfortable + -ly.

  1. derived from confortable
  2. inherited from comfortable
  3. formed as comfortably — “comfortable + -ly

Definitions

  1. In a comfortable manner.

    • I snuggled comfortably into the blankets.
    • Platform faces in Holland are further back from the track than they are in Britain, and it is a common thing to see a driver standing quite comfortably between his engine and the platform while oiling the motion.
  2. Easily

    Easily; without effort or difficulty.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at comfortably. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at comfortably. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at comfortably

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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