Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient.

Fast food might be convenient , but it's also very unhealthy.

Adjective

(en-adj)

(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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*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 18, author=Ben Dirs, work=BBC Sport

, title= 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.}}

Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable.

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*, chapter=8

, title= 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.}}

In a state of comfort and content.

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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.

:(Wyclif)

*(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.