Comfortable vs Tranquil - What's the difference?
comfortable | tranquil | Related terms |
(lb) Comforting, providing comfort; consolatory.
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*:he was going to make away himself; but meeting by chance his master Plotinus, who, perceiving by his distracted looks all was not well, urged him to confess his grief; which when he had heard, he used such comfortable speeches, that he redeemed him e faucibus Erebi .
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:a comfortable provision made for their subsistence
Amply sufficient, satisfactory.
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, title= Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable.
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*:A great bargain also had beenthe arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
(lb) Strong; vigorous; valiant.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable ; hold death a while at the arm's end.
(lb) Serviceable; helpful.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.
Free from emotional or mental disturbance.
* 1847 , , chapter XXVIII
Calm; without motion or sound.
* 1921 , Douglas Wilson Johnson, Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in Military Geography , page 262
Comfortable is a related term of tranquil.
As adjectives the difference between comfortable and tranquil
is that comfortable is (lb) comforting, providing comfort; consolatory while tranquil is free from emotional or mental disturbance.As a noun comfortable
is (us) a stuffed or quilted coverlet for a bed; a comforter.comfortable
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Adjective
(en-adj)Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia, passage=When Hape sauntered over for a try after only three minutes it looked as if England were destined for a comfortable victory, but Georgia are made of sterner stuff, as they showed when running Scotland close in Invercargill last week.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable . Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}
Synonyms
* comforting, comfy, cozy, eathful, restful, snug, cushy * (safely reliable) safeAntonyms
* comfortless, uncomfortableDerived terms
* comfortability * comfortable in one's own skin * comfortableness * comfortably * comfytranquil
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.
- that the streams which did form were clear and tranquil' because fed by perennial springs from the underground supply; and that in their ' tranquil waters extensive peat bogs formed.