Skip to content
OneKitly

comfy

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ˈkʌm.fi//
  • /[ˈkʰʌɱ.fi]/
  • /[kʰʌmpfi]/

Comfortable.

adjective

  1. 1

    informalComfortable.

    The robe and slippers were so warm and comfy she just fell asleep in her chair.

    "We're all gettin' a deal too soft and dull and comfy. Give me the great waste lands and the wide spaces, with a gun in my fist and somethin' to look for that's worth findin'."

    As an industry, the railways need to give passengers comfy seats. OK, in this case you might only be on the train for 20 or 30 minutes, but why should you not have comfort for even the shortest of journeys?

Etymology

Clipping of comfortable + -y (adjectival suffix). Origin: early 19th century.

Forms

comparative
comfier
superlative
comfiest
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).